Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
[ please don't top post ] On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:19:48PM +0100, Daniel van Eeden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) > >machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation > >everyting works fine

Re: kernel problem

2003-02-17 Thread Daniel van Eeden
I've got exactly the same problems. The watchdog is indeed a piece of protectional hardware, If you disable it your system will just crash instead of the reset. I'm using a spartstation4 110Mhz. with TurboGX framebuffer and CS4231 soundcard. Frank Van Damme wrote: Hello, I just installed Deb

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-02-17 Thread Daniel van Eeden
just enter "1/boot/sparc64" to boot /boot/sparc64 from the first partition. Afterwards edit your silo.conf. Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begi

Re: Please help: HappyMeal Bug

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Parkkali
On maanantai, helmi 17, 2003, at 19:30 Europe/Helsinki, Dave Love wrote: make a bug report against the FAQ; (b) I can perhaps provide the .deb I built eventually. I put the mine (runs on an Ultra1, 200MHz) up at http://www.sci.fi/~pfp/ultra1-kernel - enjoy. The config file is there too. The

Re: Please help: HappyMeal Bug

2003-02-17 Thread Dave Love
"Hobbs, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two .patch files, but I don't have a clue how to apply them... I > assume they go into the kernel somewhere, but haven't never touched a > kernel, I'm clueless. > > Can anyone offer any help on this?? There is an item on building a new kernel

Re: Floppy Install Problem on SS10

2003-02-17 Thread Chad Miller
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +, Gary Parker wrote: > Hi Guys (and Gals)... > I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb > RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun > keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my l

Re: Floppy Install Problem on SS10

2003-02-17 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:15:45PM +0100, Erwan MAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +, Gary Parker wrote: > | Hi Guys (and Gals)... > | I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb > | RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I

The End Of the Story - so far.

2003-02-17 Thread ***** charles
First, thanks for the responses on the best OS to install for an SS20. I was the one who had an Apple (Sony) cdrom connected externally to an SS20. Turns out the cdrom is NOT compatible with Sun stuff. I got a Toshiba this weekend and the install wizzed past the error I was getting with the Son

kernel problem

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hello, I just installed Debian on a sparc laptop. Version of debian is Sid (that means there's some stuff from woody but not much, and glibc is the sid version etc). I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel on it, starting from debians sources apt-get source kernel-2.4.20_sparc (or something) then co

Re: Floppy Install Problem on SS10

2003-02-17 Thread Erwan MAS
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +, Gary Parker wrote: | Hi Guys (and Gals)... | I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb | RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun | keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my l

Forget the last question

2003-02-17 Thread kfredenb
As it seems I was able to install it through the rescue option. Kim PS. I'm also sorry for the duplicate mails

Sparc installation

2003-02-17 Thread kfredenb
Hi, I ha a Debian 3 NONUS Sparc64 cd with which I'm trying to install a Ultra 5/10 (sun4u) machine. When I boot from the cd SILO works fine but when I at the boot: prompt press enter I get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd and noticed that there is no sparc64.g

Unidentified subject!

2003-02-17 Thread kfredenb
Hi, I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation everyting works fine with SILO. When I press ENTER at the boot: prompt I get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd and notic

Floppy Install Problem on SS10

2003-02-17 Thread Gary Parker
Hi Guys (and Gals)... I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my laptop on the serial port. Basically, the machine boots off a rescu