Re: recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Greg Gilmour
Back in the day, I installed just the Woody base system on my dual 200 Ultra2 and then just apt-get'ed the packages I wanted. I had no problems booting from the CD (just 'boot cdrom' at the OBP prompt should work), partitioning the disks, and installing. http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_

Re: recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread ParsEmAll
Sebastien LANGE wrote: Hello Listers Hello I write to ask youre opinion wahy you think is the best way to install debian on Sparc machines Thanx for your opinions With the CD installers, I had a problem with the boot but with a tftpboot.img, no problem on a Blade 1000 with only

Re: recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Sebastien LANGE
> Hello Listers Hello > > I write to ask youre opinion > wahy you think is the best way to install debian on Sparc machines > > Thanx for your opinions With the CD installers, I had a problem with the boot but with a tftpboot.img, no problem on a Blade 1000 with only => http://www.phunnypharm.or

Re: recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 13:16 -0300, Cesar Alcacibar wrote: > Hello Listers > > I write to ask youre opinion > wahy you think is the best way to install debian on Sparc machines > > Thanx for your opinions i have tried to use cd installers, but had various issues preventing me from installing with

Re: recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Alex Yung
On 11/11/2004 10:16 AM, Cesar Alcacibar wrote: > Hello Listers > > I write to ask youre opinion > wahy you think is the best way to install debian on Sparc machines > > Thanx for your opinions If your Sparc machine is in a network with internet connection, net install will be your best option.

Re: recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Patrick
I used the 1st cd of the standard woody/sparc distro and installed a base system and then apt-get everything into it that I need, but Tasksel works as well for setting up your first packages... I will say that I was at a loss for how to properly format the drive on a sparc5 for the debian install,

recomendation about Sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Cesar Alcacibar
Hello Listers I write to ask youre opinion wahy you think is the best way to install debian on Sparc machines Thanx for your opinions

Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20

2004-11-11 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 13:08 schrieb Le grand pinguin: > Well, i'll find out soon. I took the easy way and switched to a network > installation (using rarp and tftpboot). I got a nice and (slow)running > woody. After that i did a dist-upgrade  and had a night of dependency > hell (circula

Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20

2004-11-11 Thread Le grand pinguin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > Ok, i'll ckeck the silo manuals. But what about the problem with the > > sarge installation CD - a segfault during init isn't realy a nice > > thing ... > > Any idea what kernel it boots ? Not at the moment, but i can chec

2 video cards Elite 3D/M6

2004-11-11 Thread Sebastien LANGE
Hi, With the kernel 2.4.21, I have my 2 cards activate in /dev/fb0 and /dev/fb1 but with the kernel 2.6.9, I have just /dev/fb0 activate. dmesg with kernel 2.4.21 : fb0: AFB at 07f8 type 35 DAC 10 fb1: AFB at 07fa type 35 DAC 10 and dmesg with kernel 2.6.9 : ffb: AFB at 0

Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20

2004-11-11 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Ok, i'll ckeck the silo manuals. But what about the problem with the > sarge installation CD - a segfault during init isn't realy a nice > thing ... Any idea what kernel it boots ? This sparc box and 2.6.x really hate each other, resulting in hangs and other not so nice things. Igma