Re: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc

2007-04-01 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:19:19PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:39:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting: [...] | The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap | writes from first block and

Re: sparc developer machines

2005-12-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Another poster brought up a good point: what would the disk size requirements be for such a machine? a On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:25:51PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, As a part of etch release qualifications [0], sparc must have at least one (preferrably more) developer- and porter-

Re: Fujitsu Primepower 200

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
on the list are ready to give me help when I need some. Filip - Original Message - From: Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Filip Meuleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andrew, Chris Mr [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:45 AM Subject: Re

Re: Fujitsu Primepower 200

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew Sharp
In that case, it is running a ultraSPARC-2 compatible processor made by HaL (later bought by Fujitsu) and while it does run Solaris, because Solaris has been ported to the processor (I helped port Solaris 8 to this processor back in the day as a contractor for Fuj), Linux does not work on it. It

Re: SS20 and SMP using Ross modules

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:38:11PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I have here an SS20 which has run Woody reliably for an extended period. It has 2x Ross 625 CPUs, PROM 2.25R and 256Mb RAM. It runs single-processor 2.4.27 from Sarge reliably, but attempting to boot SMP gives an

Re: saving sparc for etch requalification

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:46:06PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:45:33AM -0700, Ben Collins wrote: Wow, let's just stretch the meaning to burden things even more. Needs two buildd's, but wait two machines isn't

Re: RAID-1

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
My spanish isn't so great, but I think I get the gist here. The problem is that software raid sometimes is problematic on disks with sun disk labels, so the installer just doesn't play along like it does on x86. If you want to do this, you have to do it post-install, by hand, and I recommend that

Re: memoryleak?

2005-09-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:54:32PM +0300, Timo Aarnipuro wrote: Hello I have xfree86 with gnome running on Ultrasparc 2 (4X300MHZ smp) platform. The system appears to be leaking memory. here's top: top - 17:45:38 up 7:28, 4 users, load average: 0.39, 0.20, 0.20 Tasks: 99 total,

Re: upgrading woody - sarge on Sparc 2.

2005-09-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:58:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an old Sparc 2 here, happily running Woody with Apache and Postfix. Seems that a simple technique for upgrading to Sarge is to replace every occurance of woody with sarge in /etc/apt/sources.list and then update

Re: Software raid on Ultra 2

2005-09-14 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:27:47PM +0100, Tom Taylor wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up an Ultra 2 with s/ware raid 0 with the intent to set LVM on the top . I know that LVM supports stripping itself, but I would like to do it this way anyway. The machine is a dual Ultra 2 (2x 296MHz/2MB)

Re: More storage for my Ultra10

2005-08-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:05:33AM -0700, darin strait wrote: Background: I have an Ultra10. It does very light duty as my personal subversion server and as a print server for the apartment. I would like to add Questions: Unless I'm mistaken, my Ultra10 will only hold 2 drives in addition

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:01:02PM -0400, Robert Wolfe, OpenSource Solutions wrote: On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 02:31:36 +0100 John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge run on them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65Mb of

Re: Sarge may be last Debian release for 32 bit sparc systems

2005-07-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:11:45AM +0200, mag wrote: 2005-07-25, h keltez?ssel 14.06-kor Blars Blarson ezt ?rta: In my opinion, we should drop support of all 32-bit sparc systems from Etch due to lack of people willing to spend the time to support them. I have just decided to give a try to

Re: Mopping up issues on an old sparc - need advice

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:26:51PM -0600, Eric Jorgensen wrote: I've got an ss10 that's running woody, was dist-upgraded from potato. It is in a remote facility running headless. woody is obsolete OK, I just wanted to say that to someone once. Things like potato, hamm, etc. '... is

Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
I think he needs to comment out the loading of the dri module in the XF86Config file. This one is covered pretty extensively in past threads, perhaps searching the archives would help. a On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Daniel van Eeden wrote: Have you tried afbinit? Daniel van

Re: break signal (stop-a) doesn't work

2004-07-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:40:51AM -0400, maccorin wrote: hello. I run debian on a headless U60 (serial connection to install). I would really like to be able to access PROM through the serial cable without having to reboot, but sending a break does not work as it should. I have been

Re: Debian Installer Issues

2004-07-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Alex Bartok wrote: Hello Kathleen, Friday, July 23, 2004, 10:51:01 PM, you wrote: KM No file system mounted on /target KM Installation Step Failed. KM However I still encounter the same problems when going back to the KM GUI installer. KM

Re: NFS problem

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:14:01PM +, Michael Rex wrote: Quoth Michael Rex [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I mounted the share, copied a small file to it, everything went fine. I copied a larger file (about 300kb), the process hangs and the latter messages appear in syslog. After some more

Re: X Window No Refresh on UltraSparc 5

2004-05-14 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:43:03PM +, nick macro wrote: I am running Debain Woody 3.0 r3 on a Sun UltraSparc 5 with 128Mb RAM, 8Gbyte hard disk. I am running GNOME window manager. I previously had the same problem on a Ultra 1 with 128Mb RAM, so I do not think this is a hardware or

Re: RAID and 2.2

2004-05-14 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:10:36PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: Hi, Is there a raid patch available for recent 2.2 kernels ? The latest I can find is for 2.2.20. Also, is there a version with 2.4 compatible superblocks ? I want to try 2.2 on my SMP Hypersparc SS20 (2.4 is only stable in

Re: Ultra 5 install problem

2004-03-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:50:22AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Sparc Subject: Re: Ultra 5 install problem snip Now before you go bashing on

Re: SS20 video config?

2004-03-09 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:55:31PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Have a SS20 SMP machine now running unstable. Schweet. Video card is a cg6 IIRC. Having hand hacked XF86Config-4, I'm nearly there but now can't find font fixed. Uh, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're

Re: noob with a few questions

2004-03-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:08:51PM -0800, Nicolas S. Dade wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:48:06AM -0800, Abe Olson wrote: 1. How do I add something to the default run level? I need afbinit to run before X starts so I can have a fast(er) X experience. Put it in /etc/rc2.d/. All those

Re: Moved to 2.4.21 kernel

2004-01-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:32:40AM -0600, Alex Yung wrote: Is your SBUS NIC a Happy Meal Ethernet card? hme is not compiled in the Sparc32 kernel 2.4.21. Perhap, try this: modprobe sunhme [macaddr=0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0] You only need to specify macaddr if you want a different mac from

Re: Looking for hard drives for Sparcstation 20

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:52:58PM -0600, Art Haas wrote: Hi. About a year ago I got a SparcStation 20. The machine has two internal hard drives, each 1 gig. I put Debian Woody on it - worked like a champ of course - and fiddled around with the machine for a while. Unfortunately the disk

Re: Problem with Happy Meal drivers

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Before you turn off the PC that is connected to the Sun's serial console, remove the cable from the sun. That way, the sun will stay running and you won't have these problems. a On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:38:26AM +0100, bath66 wrote: Hello, I'm using a Sun Ultra (sparc64) which is running

Re: Install debian on a diskless SparcStation (nfsroot)

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Have a look at the NFS-Root howto, and check out the packages nfsboot and nfsbooted and maybe some parts of netboot (I don't think the boot rom code in the latter will be of much use, and certainly isn't needed for sun boxen). The howto has most everything, however. I was able to put together a

Re: Help wanted: reading Linux/SPARC partitions from a x86 PC

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:08AM +0100, Antonello wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if there's a way to restore data from a Linux/SPARC formatted drive (ext3 filesystem with Sun disklabel and the like) using a standard x86 PC for disaster recovery purposes. Plugging the drive into the PC

Re: [DebToo-Devel] Some benchmarks from using apt-fu + modified pentium-builder

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:16:24PM -0400, Heitzso wrote: Eric Wong wrote: I used very conservative optimizations, but nevertheless, it looks good in some cases. http://www.yhbt.net/normalperson/debian/html/benchmark.html apt-fu and my modified pentium-builder available here:

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:45:26PM -0500, Steven Wilcoxon wrote: My experiances with dual and quad x86 systems that should blow an E4500 out of the water have shown me that in multiprocessor applications, as the load increases, the E4500 handles the loading much better. My personal opinion

Re: Strange events... (after a week-end of attempts)

2003-10-06 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:38:01AM +0200, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: After your kind suggestions... these are the actions that I performed to solve the random single character file corruption I have been experiencing for about three months in my Ultra 5 running Debian stable. 3.Frank Van

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

2003-10-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:57:13PM +0200, Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 19:29, Patrick Morris wrote: Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/snert cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) fpu : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

2003-08-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:05:21AM +0200, Antonello wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:35:54 -0700 Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does mplayer use VIS? I know on my box that has mplayer (x86 ville) it uses far more CPU with the SDL than when I specify xv as the video output device

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

2003-08-19 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:34:37AM +0200, Antonello wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:37, Martin wrote: What sort of tasks? I can believe heavily FP intensive tasks (like multimedia) are easier on an Athlon (even better on a PPC 9450 Iwould have thought) but I find that the

Re: Ultra Enterprise 2 with SMP: illegal instruction in grep

2003-07-29 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:15:53PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Just to double-check I installed kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 (no smp) and everything does work fine under it. The same version of that package, except with the added -smp, causes breakage. Any chance you have one of the old

Re: Debian installed on an x86 Sun v60x box?

2003-07-18 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:32:28PM -0700, MattW wrote: I know this isnt a sparc processor question, but I thought maybe it made sense to ask here, in more of a sun-debian context than the main list Im just wondering if anyone knows if the standard x86 debian will install on sun's x86

Re: SunFire V880

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:47:04PM +0200, Nathanael Camelot wrote: Hi all, We received at work a 6 CPU SunFire V880, and Solaris installation isn't planned before mid-August. Would it be interesting for anyone I try a debian install ? It would be interesting to me. ~:^) You might note the

Re: Unable to use smbfs even though compiled in.

2003-06-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:25:15PM -0500, Roy Bixler wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:10:43PM -0400, Robert C. Mosher II wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:07, Roy Bixler wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:40:20PM -0400, Robert C. Mosher II wrote: I have been trying to compile a kernel to

Re: Weird network troubles

2003-06-20 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:07:44PM +0200, Philippe Sainte-Marie wrote: Hi I'm having troubles with my Ultra5 and RTL8139 PCI Ethernet card. Here is what happens: eth0 is integrated Sun Ethernet Adapter with local ip 192.168.1.42 01:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer

Re: Ultra 60 'boot cdrom' Woes...

2003-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:03:06PM -0500, Chuck Brown wrote: I am able to read the CD in my Windows2k machine and browse the directories. Alas, I do not have another bootable Solaris CD to try. If you know where I could get an image of one, I'll burn it to disk and give it a try. Thanks!

Re: change eth0 to eth2 on a multi-homed ultra 1

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:02:52PM +1000, John Hedge wrote: This comes under the heading of 'nice to have' so I wouldn't want anyone to break stride in answering this problem but maybe someone has trodden this path before! Not to worry. I have a multi-homed U1. 1 motherboard 10 base T nic

Re: if you are in iowa, you can have a nice large machine

2003-06-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sh-, the rack alone is worth $1. You could sell off the car battery sized SCSI drives and recoup double your money! And the tape library machine, well, what would be really cool is if you could convert it to serve drinks rather than tapes. Talk about free beer! The total capacity of the tape

Re: Newbie questions...

2003-06-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:06:04PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: Hey, all. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, so I've taken one of my infra- structure machines that was running NetBSD and I've installed Woody on it. One thing I notice right off the bat is that things are a good bit more

Re: Which is best distro for Ultra 10

2003-06-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:47:32AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:31:37PM -0700, Amit Mehra wrote: Hi, Few questions to the linux users who have worked on Sun Ultra 10 I have a Sun Ultra10 workstation(UltraSPARC-IIi 300MHz, 256 MB RAM) and plan to port a HPUX

Re: does not match kernel data

2003-05-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Perhaps you have a problem with the way you built your kernel. I've had a similar problem if I did something that changed things in between doing a make vmlinux without doing a make clean first. Translation: do a make clean before a make vmlinux and see if the resulting system map doesn't work

Re: Boot From CD?

2003-05-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:20:14PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: Assuming you've got a keyboard and monitor, hit Stop-A as it's coming up, then type boot cdrom at the ok prompt. If you are using a serial console, sending a break should do the same thing. Ben Reubenstein wrote: The system

Re: Setting speed and duplexing on a sbus QFE interface on an Ultra 1

2003-05-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:12:58AM -0400, Ben Pitzer wrote: Andrew, Thanks for getting back to me with this, as it seemed to be a good possibility. Unfortunately, it isn't working. Apparently, ethtool doesn't support QFE cards, only HME on Sparc systems. I have an HME on this system, I

Re: Sparcstation 4 Serial cable.

2003-04-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:01:17AM +0100, James Ireson wrote: Get a apple macintosh modem cable and a null modem adapter... Both standard bits that you can buy pre-made The apple macintosh modem cable I have has a DIN connector on one end, looks just like a PS/2 connector. What will that work

Re: Ultra 1 - second ethernet not recognized

2003-04-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:29:10PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! I have a Sun Ultra1[0] here, and want to make a firewall out of it. So I put in a second ethernet, SBus, 270-1881-02 rev 1 (AUI/BNC), but the kernel doesn't seem to recognize it (eg only eth0 shows up in dmesg[1]).

Re: XFS Was: Custom tftpboot images

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:37:11PM -0400, Marco Rodriguez wrote: On 3 Apr 2003, Dave Love wrote: For interest, what's the big advantage of XFS over ext3, especially on a system disk? this may be a good reading: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfsm=104623484026425w=2 any way XFS

Re: Happy Meal Ethernet - hme on Ultra1 not reliable

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:54:22PM -0800, Joshua Uziel wrote: You both need to use the patch at http://sparclinux.net/pub/patches/U1-hme-lockup.patch * Shawn Wallbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030314 11:28]: I have had many problems with hme's under both Debian and OpenBSD. I have decided to

Re: Debian on Sun Enterprise 250

2003-03-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:06:58PM -0800, P Ballasy wrote: Hello all, Being unfamiliar with Sun hardware and any Debian distro, I have some specs to run by you all to see if I should, in reality, dump the Solaris 5.7 OS on our Sun Enterprise 250 and replace it with Debian 3.0. Hardware

Re: Sparc5 woody CDR boot woes

2003-01-27 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:48:11PM +, Taras Ciuriak wrote: William Law wrote: Taras, I had similar troubles with my sparc5-110. I found that the first CD would not boot properly. I ended up resorting to boot floppies, then changing media to the CD for the rest of the installation.

Re: tftp install on IPX

2003-01-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Irvin Probst wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:55, Niall Parker wrote: Unfortunately the system hangs after the Booting Linux ... prompt, no further messages. IPX are sun4c, so

Re: xine and cg14

2002-11-18 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:03:48PM +0900, John Wood wrote: anyone had success getting xine to run under woody (xfree 4.1), with a cg14 (sx) framebuffer running at 32bpp?? can it be done? if xine requires xv (it doesn't iirc) it will not work since there is no run xine-check. it will

Re: Stability of Ultra-10 (440Mhz Ultrasparc-IIi, 256M of ram, 9G disk)

2002-11-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:39:10PM -0500, Scott Walker wrote: so I bit (bite?) the bullet and downloaded debian and burnt it to cd. I stuck it in the U10, and gave the ol' boot cdrom and got told where I can stick it with this error message.. Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot

Re: unknown partition table

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 04:12:05PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote: Sven Lankes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:14:22AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0 2733 2077080 fd Linux raid

Re: Sparc64 Install Problem

2002-10-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:28:02PM -0400, Bill Meahan wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:11:21 -0400 philo vivero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, I booted with the rescue image which, for whatever reason, did a normal install. Here's what I did: ok boot cdrom . . . blah blah blah

Re: Sparc64 Install Problem

2002-10-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:10:42PM -0400, Bill Meahan wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:56:36 -0700 Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:28:02PM -0400, Bill Meahan wrote: [snip] exactly. Well, what you are possibly talking about isn't about PC assumptions

Re: libc6 (+sparc64) deb hell

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:29:49PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:37:23PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Sorry for starting a new thread. For me it's safer than adding headers found in the archive. Anyway, Ben Collins suggested: apt-get --purge remove

Re: boot installation doesn't boot

2002-09-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:07:36AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: Problem: I'm trying to install Debian onto an old SparcStation 20 via CDROM, but the disk doesn't boot. Nothing is wrong with the SS20, as I've successfully loaded Solaris7 onto it in a fresh install. And when I put the

Re: SILO possible on fourth partition?

2002-09-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:54:28PM +0200, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: Hello, I'm doing a network install of Woody on my Ultra 5, and I hope to be able to dualboot to Solaris 9, which is already on it. I have read some FAQs, but I guess I have made a few silly false beginner assumptions.

Re: Printer driver(?) problem

2002-09-19 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:39:03PM -0300, Antonio Luiz Pacifico wrote: Hello for all, I'm getting the following problem. I run Debian GNU/Linux on a Ultra 30. Until now I have been using kernel 2.2.19 and I did not have problems. Today I downloaded the Kernel 2.4.19, compiled it and...

Re: Problem with added video card with Sun terminal and keyboard...

2002-09-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 11:25:20AM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote: I have a little problem here. I had a SS20 (sun4m) system running debian 3.0 on a serial terminal... Now I have just installed a TGX video card and hooked up a real terminal and keyboard but I do not get to the login prompt.

netinst image looking for non-existant dir

2002-09-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
The netinst image at ~bcollins doesn't work because it's looking for .../images-2.88/rescue.bin, but there is no images-2.88 directory, only images-1.44. Is there somewhere else that I should be getting this? I must say that going to www.debian.org and trying to get any cd image pointers for

Re: Printing Problems on Ultra 30

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Sageev George wrote: While I've had some progress with trying to make my Ultra 30 print, I've had no real success. What I have done so far is adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. During the installation of the parport_pc

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Mark Eichin wrote: I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail. Why were you surprised? qmail, while useful, isn't DFSG-free. And sendmail is pretty much a legacy system :-) (Although in theory it has improved, the phrase a security hole you could drive a

Re: Printing Problems on Ultra 30

2002-06-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Andrew Sharp wrote: Sageev George wrote: While I've had some progress with trying to make my Ultra 30 print, I've had no real success. What I have done so far is adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. During

Re: IPX Happymeal 2.2.17

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
James Ireson wrote: I've just moved a happymeal card over from my SS5 (where it was working) to my IPX to try and create a multihomed box to solve some problems I'm having with routing... The IPX can see the card however I'm getting messages spewing to console where the happymeal seems to

Re: linux-2.4.x on sparc32 systems

2002-06-06 Thread Andrew Sharp
Christian Jönsson wrote: After beating on the linux-2.4.19-preX for sparc32 SMP for a while, I get the feeling that 2.4.19-pre10 is pretty ok. Furthermore, the sparc32 cleanup being e-mailed to the sparclinux list seems to further improve quality of the kernel on sparc32 systems. I'd like

Re: linux-2.4.x on sparc32 systems

2002-06-06 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:05:14PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: Christian J?nsson wrote: After beating on the linux-2.4.19-preX for sparc32 SMP for a while, I get the feeling that 2.4.19-pre10 is pretty ok. Furthermore, the sparc32 cleanup being e-mailed

Re: xdm and gpm questions

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Mueller wrote: On Monday 27 May 2002 04:51 am, Andrew Sharp wrote: snip You can remove the startup links for gdm with the command # update-rc.d -f gdm remove I tried this but I found that # update-rc.d -f gpm remove worked a little better :) I've been mistyping gpm

Re: xdm and gpm questions

2002-05-27 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Mueller wrote: When I power up my Ultra5 both gpm and xdm are running and they evidently do not play nicely together. I telnet in to the Ultr5 from another system, become root, and issue $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop $ /etc/init.d/gpm stop Then I log in to my user account on the

Re: Again sparc serial...

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:17:34AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've found a bounce of problem using serial port with my SS20. I've to try my Courier V.Everything, but for now i've not able to make

Re: Fresh install of woody on quad SS20?

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Christian Jönsson wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:06:31PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:50:44PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:38:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:35:49PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:

Re: base-config workaround for sparc?

2002-05-08 Thread Andrew Sharp
Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2002, Ben Collins wrote: This is a -user question really, but I'll cover it real quick. I kindof figured that, but since previous stuff I'd seen didn't cover this situation (they suggested switching to another virtual terminal but this is headless).

Re: Sun Support for Linux

2002-02-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
I got one of these dual athlon m/b from tyan (with 2 1.4GHz Athlons and DDR memory -- talk about a sick fast machine) for a client (alas not for me), and it had a feature where you can get the thing to do the post/bios cruft onto the serial port instead of the keyboard/vga port. It did kind of a

Re: Sun Support for Linux

2002-02-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Mon, 11 Feb 2002 it looks like Bob Van Cleef composed: Has anyone seen any indication of a sea change since the press release stating the Sun was embracing Linux? Hmm, well there have been actually two announcements in the last two weeks that have raised

Re: [Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.]

2001-12-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Eric Huiban wrote: p.s. Any happy debianer playing with SBUS FDDI adapters (AMD AM79C830 + sram + ATT FFDI xcvr) here ? I'm unsure that a so old stuff can be used with Linux... :-))) Er, no, but I've got an sbus card that says: CDDI(tm)/MLT-3 on the external plate, and has status and

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Tille, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: What happens when you try the user level nfs server? The nfs-user-server always worked like a charm and does now as well. But I really thought it would be depreciated and wanted to try nfs-kernel-server over and over again

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
MPfeifer wrote: Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel version will only give you better performance (depending on what the processor is), and who really needs that? Anyway, this sounds like what do you mean with depending on what the processor is? does NFS

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Tille, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel version will only give you better performance (depending on what the processor is), and who really needs that? Performance and security. Well NFS is insecure

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Tille, Andreas wrote: This was my impression that something went really wrong inside the kernel. UNfortunately I have neither time nor enough knowledge to track down the problem into the necessary detail to file a reasonable What happens when you try the user level nfs server? a

Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend)

2001-11-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Jonathan Amery wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Ok, I go for 2.2.20, but still can't 2) - get raid stuff work, at least with 2.2.20 kernel shipped with potato Debian distrib (when I'll come to have stock 2.2.20 run , I may try :) Right - I've just been talking to the

Re: asynchronus device / not block device

2001-10-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
Del Campo, Damian wrote: I installed debian potato to a SS2 off of a CDrom. When the installation reboots and starts the package installation, it can't mount the CDrom. It says that the CDrom is not a block device. What does this mean? Figuring that maybe my CD rom is problem, I watched

Re: debian / solaris

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
James A Morrison wrote: When I first got my Ultra 5 and was using software from sunfreeware I also had configure scripts indicate that gcc was a cross compiler. After talking to the maintainer of sunfreeware, he concluded I must have been missing some development libraries from sun because

Re: debian / solaris

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
Mike Renfro wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:39:52PM +0200, Loic Jaouen wrote: Look at the /usr/local/pkg of your solaris box and tell me if you don't see there: tar, openssl, gmake, gcc ... Just something to take care of /usr/local/pkg and /usr/dangerous/pkg for generic and

Re: debian / solaris

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Sharp
Mike Renfro wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:12:44AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: What's wrong with Solaris' package system? I found in two seconds a web site with a large number of the most common packages used in linux and freebsd packaged for Solaris package system. They worked

Re: Console no login prompt after boot

2001-10-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Frank Stolze wrote: Hi there, I installed Debian 2.2r3 on a Sun Ultra 2 via a serial port console. After that I successfully used Debian via the serial port (except console-tools not installing successfully). Now I added a Sun monitor keyboard to the machine. I can boot Debian

Re: Possibly O.T. but need help

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
Nah. The better question is do they have the CD? Of course, you can download for free the Solaris 8.1 CD images from Sun's web site and burn your own. Virtually all Ultra5s have a CDROM drive, although I suppose it's possible someone took it off. a Patrick Morris wrote: This is assuming,

Re: Why no raid modules?

2001-09-25 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Hicks wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:58:17PM -0500, Michael Hicks wrote: Why aren't any raid modules included in the official kernel packages for UltraSparc? Because most likely the ioctl's aren't written to support them on

Re: Ftpd

2001-09-06 Thread Andrew Sharp
Paulo Graça Rodrigues wrote: Hello! I have a sparc station 5 running Debian Linux, kernel 2.0.35. My libc6 version is 2.0.105-2. I need a ftpd server to install on that machine (I don't want proftpd, just a simple ftpd). I've looked in some ftp archives but all ftpd daemons need libc6

Re: Kernel 2.2.19 boot problems

2001-09-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0700, Jeff Wyman wrote: The file I am copying is: linux/arch/sparc/boot/vmlinux.o It was my assumption that the kernel was placed in this location. The .o extention did look suspicious to me, but as far as I know, this is where

Re: Sparc has slow disk access

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
Anton Blanchard wrote: Try the solaris test again, Binkey, and this time use a filesystem other than /tmp for the output. Try setting up a ufs-log file system and see if the performance doesn't exceed that of linux. I would think that Solaris tmpfs was faster than their filesystems

Re: Sparc20 and kernel 2.4.7: problem to boot

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
My dual processor SS20 works fine with the 2.2.19-smp kernel package. You don't need 2.4 for that. And the sun4u package isn't going to work on a sun4m machine anyway, even if 2.4 was working on sparc32 machines. a Joël Soete wrote: Hi all, I found an old Sun Sparc20 station with dual

Re: sun4m and 2.4.x revisited

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
If it's an important part of your network, it doesn't seem to make sense to risk significant down time and/or admin work to switch to 2.4. Why are you so keen on moving to 2.4? It must be a very good reason to risk destabilizing the machine. If it was a small amount of extra work, it would be

Re: sun4m and 2.4.x revisited

2001-08-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
Simon Read wrote: If it's an important part of your network, it doesn't seem to make sense to risk significant down time and/or admin work to switch to 2.4. Three reasons: My network is not a production network. OK. If it was a small amount of extra work, it would be done

Re: Linux on a SunBlade 100

2001-08-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
isaac jones wrote: Jason Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:47:22AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: After quite a few aborted attempts, I finally got Linux running on my SunBlade 100. Here's a brief outline of what worked. Have you had any success getting

Re: booting off cdrom

2001-07-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: :- Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the system boots, hit the STOP and A keys to get to an ok prompt. Once there type boot cdrom. This assumes that your cdrom is SCSI ID 6. Dumb question... What if the cdrom is IDE? Is the boot code

Re: TFTP on SS2

2001-06-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
ooh. perhaps this is what is wrong with 2.4.2 on my SS20, which won't load from SILO. Memory is 512MB, which I believe is the maximum config. Different problem, but the slink install wouldn't work on the same machine because of too much memory, so back in those days I was running --gulp-- RH

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