Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc

2008-07-13 Thread Hamish Greig
Chris Newport wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote: An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually found on these machines will not work. In th

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc

2008-07-13 Thread Chris Newport
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote: An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually found on these machines will not work. In that case I would say th

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-13 Thread Giorgio Davanzo
As stated by others, there's a hole in FC support. Nevertheless: I'm flattered by Frans' offers, but unfortunately I don't have the time to personally fix the issue. My goal was to revive an E3500 machine, that's all. Debian was an option, the preferred one. We rolled back to OpenSolaris, and ev

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc

2008-07-13 Thread Hamish Greig
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote: An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually found on these machines will not work. In that c

Re: http://release.debian.org/lenny/arch_qualify.html

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Josip Rodin schrieb am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2008 um 10:27:14 +0200: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:22:44AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:03:41PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > > > I just noticed, that sparc is 'at risk' not to be released with lenny > > > according to http://

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-13 Thread Chris Newport
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:01:52 +0200 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC) Giorgio Davanzo wrote: we're stuck with the FC disk problem. We've found

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote: > An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not > maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x > This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually > found on these machines will not work. In that case I would s

Re: http://release.debian.org/lenny/arch_qualify.html

2008-07-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:22:44AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:03:41PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > > I just noticed, that sparc is 'at risk' not to be released with lenny > > according to http://release.debian.org/lenny/arch_qualify.html. > > > > Maybe someone with k

Re: http://release.debian.org/lenny/arch_qualify.html

2008-07-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:03:41PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > I just noticed, that sparc is 'at risk' not to be released with lenny > according to http://release.debian.org/lenny/arch_qualify.html. > > Maybe someone with knowledge of the sparc-buildd could update the > Section "Archive covera