Re: Debian on SparcStation 20

2004-07-13 Thread Everard Brown
On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 21:07, Kelly Harding wrote: hi, I recently aquired a SparcStation 20 (SM50 MBus module, 64mb ram, TGX SBus graphics, 2x scsi hard drives (size unknown)). I am wanting to put Debian on this system. the box didn't come with a CD-ROM or floppy drive so I'm going to try

Re: tftp boot images question

2004-07-13 Thread Everard Brown
On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 19:46, Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hi all. On ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/ and ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/ you can find tftp boot images. I am looking for tftp boot images of the debian

Re: Debian on SparcStation 20

2004-07-13 Thread Everard Brown
On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 23:44, Kelly Harding wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Everard Brown wrote: On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 21:07, Kelly Harding wrote: If you're in or around North or West London, I have a spare keyboard and a vga adaptor that you can borrow. I also have spare (RAM/Disk-less) SS10

Re: X on SS20

2004-07-13 Thread Everard Brown
On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 23:58, Torbjörn Olander wrote: Hello I recently aquired a SparcStation 20 with a SM50 CPU module, 64MB RAM and CG6 framebuffer. I got it running with debian unstable and a custom 2.6 kernel, but I can't seem to get Xfree86 running (yes, I know it's slow but i just want

2.4 kernel for SUNstation 20

2004-04-29 Thread Everard Brown
Hi All, Can anyone confirm if I can use kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u for a SUNstation 20? or do I need to build my own from sources ? TIA, Everard

[newbie] Install/Boot problem

2004-04-25 Thread Everard Brown
Hi All, I have installed woody via 'net boot'. All went well, but I can't boot from the hard disk. System: SPARCstation 20 32Mb RAM No floopy or CDROM drive Issues that make me suspicious include: o I used the 's' parameter in fdisk to partition this disk. This gave me: sda1

Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem

2004-04-25 Thread Everard Brown
Hi Pat, Thanks for the quick reply ;-) On Monday 26 Apr 2004 12:05 am, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Sunday 25 April 2004 16:37, Everard Brown wrote: Hi All, I have installed woody via 'net boot'. All went well, but I can't boot from the hard disk. System: SPARCstation 20