Re: Ultra Enterprise 450 available (Belgium)

2010-04-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 01:33:19PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:39:15PM +0200, Angelo Rossi wrote: > > what about Italy? I'm interested in adopt this child for debian developing, > > but I'm living in Italy... > > > If you need a Ultra Enterprise 450 for any free software

Ultra Enterprise 450 available (Belgium)

2010-04-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, If you need a Ultra Enterprise 450 for any free software related activity, and you're within driving distance from Alken, Belgium, contact me. It has one CPU installed, I think 1GB RAM (I could be wrong here), and four 9GB disks (I could be wrong about the capacity). There's also some sparc3

RAID and 2.2

2004-05-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
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 UP), but I would prefer not to have to rebuild my raid5 array . Frank

Re: Hello

2003-10-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:41:10PM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > I like apt-get its good (not great ! - I cant uninstall some things for > exmaple, and if I try and remove a kde like the useless knews it tries > to remove KDE !). No it doesn't. It tries to remove some metapackages which are mai

Re: Strange events...

2003-09-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:45:33PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > I've had a similar problem a while ago with the dpkg status file. In my > case it was caused by bad RAM. Have you tried memtest86 ? Oops. I hadn't noticed which mailing list I was reading... Anyway, this might st

Re: Strange events...

2003-09-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > I am a little worried about my system (Debian stable on ULTRA 5). > > I have been experiencing for about three months a corruption on file > /var/lib/dpkg/available. > > When I install/upgrade, apt-get stops saying that in this

Re: ss20 dual ross hypersparc; smp; 2.4/2.6 kernel

2003-09-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:53:21AM -0400, Heitzso wrote: > I'm wanting to setup SMP on a dual ross hypersparc ss20 > with 2.4 or 2.6 kernel to be able to use iptables, etc. > (SOHO firewall/router/web server) > > Because I'm familiar with debian (have had on my dev 386 box > for a long time) I wen

Re: card Sun Swift

2003-09-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:00:19PM +0200, bath66 wrote: > Hello, > > Is the SunSwift's card (SCSI + Ethernet) supported by linux (it uses an SBUS > port) ? If yes, which options do I have to activate ? It works fine. You need CONFIG_SCSI_SUNESP for the scsi, and CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL for the ethernet

Re: OpenSSH package (also zlib)

2003-09-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:05:38AM -0400, Gabor Szilagyi wrote: > Hi, > > I am just wondering if there is any reason that I am unable to get OpenSSH > package. What package are you trying ? OpenSSH is in the ssh package, not openssh. Frank > I am new to Debian (and sparc). > > I managed to re

Re: SparcStation20 setup problems

2003-07-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:54:34PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Hi, > > I guess here are some Sparc experts and I wanted to install Debian anyway :) > > I got some sparc components. > I conntected a serial terminal (labeled VT520) to it the SS20 and it shows > up the first boot messages just f

Re: Curious problem with a Sparc 20

2003-07-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:02:32AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (Grammar errors fixed) > Greetings all > > I have curious problem with a SparcStation 20 > that just got hold of. It seemed to load Debian ok > but when it reboots after the install it gives > me the following message at post: >

Re: wide scsi controller for use with multipack [SOLVED]

2003-06-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:21:01PM +1000, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > I want to connect a 12-bay Multipack 711 to an SS20. What kind of SCSI > > controller do I need (single ended or differential) ? > > You need an SE contr

wide scsi controller for use with multipack

2003-06-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I want to connect a 12-bay Multipack 711 to an SS20. What kind of SCSI controller do I need (single ended or differential) ? Frank

Re: [debian-sparc] Which is best distro for Ultra 10

2003-06-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:28:23PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > > > Do you mean to tell me that XML is _not_ taking over the world? > > > In some applications. I'm more interested in lower level software. > > > There is no XML version of machine code or IP - and something tells me > > > there never wi

some problems + recommended kernel for ss20 smp hypersparc

2003-06-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I'm currently running 2.2.20+raid patch on my quad 125MHz hypersparc SS20. I do have one problem with it : it panics while (or just after) cleaning /tmp and /var/run if I boot normally from serial console. It works correctly when I boot with 'console=ttyS1,9600', but I get no output on ttyS1,

Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?

2003-03-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0600, * charles wrote: > Hi all, > > >From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc > is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What > I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get > enough of Linux on my SS20 to

Re: v8 optimised openssl packages

2003-03-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:13:51PM +, Francis Devereux wrote: > I have compiled my own optimised openssl packages, from the latest stable > sources (0.9.6c-2woody.2). They work great, but whenever I do an apt-get > upgrade apt wants to replace them with the default versions. I can hold them >

Re: best version of debian-sparc to use?

2003-02-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:38:39AM -0600, * charles wrote: > Hi all, > > I just acquired an SS20 with the following: > > 128M of ram > ZX frame buffer > 1G hard drive > Sony external bootable cdrom > 75MHz cpu > 19" monitor > keyboard / no mouse > > I have tried to install three different OS

Re: Open Office deb

2003-02-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Mark T. Valites wrote: > Does anyone have any unofficial sources or sparc debs they'd care to share > for open office? AFAIK openoffice for linux/sparc is not supported by upstream yet. > I've had no luck obtaining any so far & don't exactly look forward

Re: SCSI hard drive in IPX

2003-01-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:16PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: > Kinda prompted by Ivan's intro, but anyone can feel free to advise ;) > > Is there anything special I need to account for to use a SCSI drive from > a PC on a SPARC IPX ? I'm just getting started with an old IPX, and while the > origi