Hi!
After a long timeout (familial caused) I work on my Sun Ultra Sparc
Circus again - ranging from several Ultra 1 up to Blade 1500 and Sun
Fire 210 (and an SS20 used for my weekly mail bacḱup - but that's 32 bit
stuff).
The Suns - as old as they are - are used as Scanner Server, SCSI
Raid Disk
Hi.
On Monday 12 June 2017 09:56:08 sacarde wrote:
> hi,
>do you confirm this is the right null-modem?
>
> http://sacarde.altervista.org/np/serial4.jpg
>
>
>
>
>
> thanks
>
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> saca...@tiscali.it
Looks well, I use the same pin assignment on my null-modem cables here.
Regarding the minicom
Hi.
On Sunday 09 April 2017 22:12:52 transmail wrote:
> Can anyone help me on this matter? No matter what i'm trying, i cannot boot
> anything on my machine. I've tried Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD. It always
> tells me, it "cannot read disk label", "cannot read disk label package" and
> "cannot
Hi all.
I tried to install Sparc64 on some of my Suns - base install only.
Iso-Image used: Debian-9.0-sparc64-netinst-1, 2016-05-04
Blade 1500: Success
Fire V210: Success
Ultra60: Success - ttyS0 only (Creator 3D does not work during installation)
Ultra Enterprise 450: failed - partitioner did
On Tuesday 15 September 2015 12:07:10 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was wondering how many here are still interested in the Debian
> SPARC port?
count ++
Hartwig
Hi.
On Friday 11 July 2014 19:57:13 shyam prasad wrote:
Dear Berckel,
The below error i am getting after the installation.
lqqqu [!!] Install the SILO boot loader on a hard disk tk
x x
x
Hi.
On Wednesday 02 October 2013 23:36:40 u60 spitfire wrote:
Just signed up for this mailing list; had spent a good amount of time
over the last week getting my Ultra 60 up and running again. It's
mostly OK...heh...execpt the part about having to reprogram the darn
NVRAM every time I turn
Hi.
Last night, I've built a kernel 3.11.1 from kernel.org the Debian way (as
described in Debian Linux Kernel Handbook) - without any problems.
My test environment: a fresh installation of Wheezy (7.0.1) on a Sun Ultra 60,
i.e. a SCSI machine.
I'm going to do a test with an ATAPi/IDE Blade
to make a vanilla kernel for Debian.
Two of my systems are SCSI based and both of those have problems when I do
the standard
cp /boot/config-Old Version ./.config
make oldconfig
make deb-pkg
dpkg -i linux-*.deb
-Kieron
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Hartwig Atrops
hartwig.atr
and the Sun Fire T2000.
Thanks for the help, I just wanted to eliminate the possibility I was just
making some stupid mistake. Looks like it's more than that. I'll
investigate more.
-Kieron
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Hartwig Atrops
hartwig.atr...@arcor.dewrote:
Hi.
I used the Debian
Hello.
On Friday 15 February 2013 10:24:27 Jurij Smakov wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:27:32PM +0100, Hartwig Atrops wrote:
Hello.
This evening, I tested the packages from wooyd.org on my Blade 100 -
still nok :-(
I used the latest Wheezy version (apt-get update / apt-get upgrade
Hello.
This evening, I tested the packages from wooyd.org on my Blade 100 - still
nok :-(
I used the latest Wheezy version (apt-get update / apt-get upgrade) and
deinstalled iceweasel, xulrunner and libmozjs (apt-get purge), then installed
the new packages form HD (gdebi).
Regards,
Hi Fred.
...
The monitor is now running at 1280x1024. I am using the openbox window
manager. The display is way bigger that the LCD and when an application
is minimized the icon goes way off the screen and I can't get it back.
...
Section Screen
Identifier Default Screen
Hi.
On Sunday 03 February 2013 00:23:35 Fred wrote:
Hello,
I am running Debian 6.0 on a Sun Ultra 5 with a Sun 7205a LCD. The
video mode defaults to 800x600 which is causing problems with the
openbox window manager. The video mode probably needs to be set to
1280x1024 but I have been
Hello.
I tried to connect an external SCSI disk array to one of my Sun Ultra1
machines. It did not work out of the box.
dmesg reported missing firmware for the SCSI controler board (SBUS module):
qlogic/isp1000.bin. apt-file search didn't find anything in main, contrib and
non-free.
Does
Hi.
iceweasel starts, but has problems with several sites:
crashing on:
www.spiegel.de
www.linux-magazin.de
www.arte.tv
(and some more)
Are you getting any error messages? I would expect bus error or
something. You might see evidence of it in dmesg as well.
If
Hi.
Today I run a quite basic Wheezy test install on my Sun Ultra 60.
Tasksel selection: only standard system + ssh server
+ apt-get install:
xorg
xfce4
xfce4-terminal
iceweasel
(+apt-file)
xfce is working so far (xfce4-terminal ok, xterm nok: black
Hi.
I would have a question. I have got some Sun - Ultra Sparc 10 computer with
TI UltraSparc IIi cpu. And i tried to distupgrade my old stable debian to
squueze. Is there a support yet for this sparc architecture in squueze? Or
which debian release supported it?
Debian Squeeze works well on
Hi.
I try to install a Raptor GFX graphics board on my Sun Blade 100. Opsys is
Debain Squeeze. Up to now I used the onboard graphics, that works.
After installing the GFX and doing a STOP-N, the 'devalias screen' entry
points to the new board. Ok. But booting the installed system ends up with
Hi all.
I have problems building a sparc32 kernel. My latest approach:
Sparcstation 20 with a new Debian 4.0 installation (latest packages from
archive.debian.org).
This installation comes with kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-sparc32
after gunzipping this: 2.2 MB
apt-get install
Hi.
... , i try to install
ephiphany, apt-get install epiphany
the install epiphany work's, but i cannot start epiphany, there are
another browser or fix bug!
I just guess: do you expect any new software to show up in your xfce menues
automatically?
Did you try to start it from command
Hi.
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 14:49, philo wrote:
hi,
i have intalled debian Testing on a ultra5, also i have installed Gnome.
Networking is alive.
but when I start epiphany it appears two seconds and then disappears!
Same problem on Ultra10 and blade 100, not gnome but xfce. Both epihany
Hi.
've just taken delivery of a 'new' Ultra 5, but for the life of me
can't boot a CD. The cd drive is an OEM model that was originally
sold with the Ultra 5 and I have no reason to suspect that it hasn't
been fitted since new. I suspect that my 'cdrom' alias is pointing to
the wrong
Hi all.
How can I set the output device on my Blade100? I added a PCI Graphics Card
and want to use it as the default display (onboard graphics does not work
with Xopen).
With openboot diag-switch? set to true the card is listed as
/p...@1f,0/p...@5/display
Using this with
setenv
Hi.
Hi Hartwig,
The method that you're using is basically correct, but it seems odd
to me that OBP is recognizing your PCI graphics card as simply display
and there's no @ character in the third section of the path
/p...@1f,0/p...@5/display.
I misunderstood the diag-switch? output - I am
never had two
graphics cards in one system before.
Regards,
Hartwig
On Thursday 08 October 2009 22:10, Brian Thompson wrote:
Hartwig Atrops wrote:
Hi.
Hi Hartwig,
The method that you're using is basically correct, but it seems odd
to me that OBP is recognizing your PCI graphics
Hi all.
I try to install Debian on a Sun Blade 100, it does not work. I tried to
install etch from CD and via netboot, tried sarge and even woody. The
installation hangs on different positions.
A firmware update did not help.
I could not find any helpful hinds on the internet.
Any idea?
Hello.
I apologize if this's a little off topic,
I do not think it's off topic.
but I have a SunSparc 10 machine
with a faulty network onboard card, I wonder if it´s posible to replace it
with a common PCI ethernet card, and if so, how to configure it. Do you
know a possible solution ?.
Hi all.
I try to make sound work on an Ultra1 (Sarge, vanilla kernel 2.6.15-4).
alsaplayer cannot open /dev/dsp - this device does not exist.
This is my first aproach to make sound work on a Sun running Linux - any
hinds are welcome.
Regards,
Hartwig
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Hi.
The SS20 is the latest 32bit Sparc workstation - max. 2 CPU modules, up to 4
CPUs. No PCI, it's SBUS based.
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:44, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically,
Hi.
On Saturday 17 December 2005 18:26, Marc Coevoet wrote:
Q: How do I access
OpenBoot?
Pressing the keys L1 and A at the same time will bring you to the
OpenBoot system. You will see the display
where is the L1 key ??
I see F1 ...
It's the Stop key. Was called L1 on old keyboards.
Hi.
On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:25, Marc Coevoet wrote:
Ok I put a linux cdrom and try to
boot cdrom
it says:
boot device;:/iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],
80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:d
can't open disk label
can't open disk label package ..
Can the boot see
Hi Marc.
I did not read the whole thread. Maybe I repeat some things.
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 19:18, Marc Coevoet wrote:
Op 22-nov-05 om 12:54 heeft Turbo Fredriksson het volgende geschreven:
Are you using port A (first serial port) on the SPARC? if not,
what port have you/is specified
Hi.
Sorry, list address was missing ...
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Subject: Re: PROM update with linux
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:29:41 +0100
From: Hartwig Atrops [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Hendrik.
On Thursday 10 November 2005 17:37, Hendrik
Hello.
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 07:32, Jurij Smakov wrote:
Hello,
I've recently got a Sparcstation 20 (thanks to Blars) which I plan to use
in an attempt to resurrect the sparc32 support.
Like to hear that!
It has multiple Ross
Hypersparc CPUs, however the boot prom chip is Sun-made.
Hi.
On Sunday 09 October 2005 20:59, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Hartwig Atrops declared on Sunday 09 October 2005 12:18 pm:
Hi.
The BREAK key.
That was my first idea. But I can't find a break key on the DEC
keyboard.
IIRC, F5 should be mapped to it, assuming a VT220 or newer
Hi all.
STOP-A problem solved, I just install Debian Sarge via serial terminal. The
base system works, reboot was ok, now the additional tasks are being
installed. Back at 9600 Baud - that's how I started years ago :-)
System: Ultra2, single 168 MHz CPU, 256 MB Ram, no graphics/keyboard.
Hi all.
I want to do some tests with Debian Sarge on an Ultra2 and try to make a
barbone work again. Added CPU and memory - since this machine has no
graphics, I attached a terminal (DEC VT 420) to serial A.
How can I send STOP-A from my serial terminal? The machine tries to boot from
Hi.
The BREAK key.
That was my first idea. But I can't find a break key on the DEC keyboard.
Or in some cases, turn the terminal off and then back
on (my Netra X1 is sensitive to this -- I have to drop to the LOM
before turning off the terminal or it senses it as a BREAK and halts
the OS
Hi.
Thanks for your answer.
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 20:07, Michael-John Turner wrote:
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:59:47PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote:
Regarding Solaris: In my opinion the default boot disk for Solaris is
SCSI ID 3. I could not check today, as far as I remember I can
Hi all.
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 12:19, Klaus Klein wrote:
Hartwig Atrops wrote:
Hi all.
I try to run an external SCSI disk box (3 disks) with a Sparcstation 20
(Debian 3.0 Woody, kernel 2.4.18 SMP, 2 x SuperSparc II 75 MHz, no
CDROM). Disk array: Sun P/N 595-3769-01, three 2GB disks
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 21:59, Hartwig Atrops wrote:
You are right. I modified my silo.conf and inittab - booting from sdd, now
it works - if I switch on my disk array.
Hey, I just discovered that I can switch off my disk array after booting to
get rid off that nasty noise :-)
Hartwig
Hi all.
I try to run an external SCSI disk box (3 disks) with a Sparcstation 20
(Debian 3.0 Woody, kernel 2.4.18 SMP, 2 x SuperSparc II 75 MHz, no
CDROM). Disk array: Sun P/N 595-3769-01, three 2GB disks (one slot is empty),
narrow SCSI (50 pin).
The SS20 starts booting, linux bootup
Hi.
On Sunday 02 October 2005 22:40, Michael-John Turner wrote:
AFAIK, 08:01 is sda1:
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 5 2000 sda1
I have a feeling that the Linux kernel is identifying your ID 0 disk as
sda, which would be problematic as you want to boot from the ID 3 disk.
Perhaps try
Hello all.
I yust received a Sun Ultra 60 wit a X3670A (501-5690) Creator 3D. The
Creator 3D has a 13W3 connector and a mini-Din (?) connector. What is that
mini-Din good for? Lots of useless Google hits ...
Thanks,
Hartwig
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On Tuesday 16 August 2005 22:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Sorry I don't have any info for you on the storage issues, but since
you've got an Ultra 10 perhaps you can help me - I installed sarge on my
Ultra 10, but I can't use the keyboard in X.
The keyboard works fine at the console, but
Hi.
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 22:17, Jon Biddell wrote:
...
Does the Ultra 10 have SCSI already ? If so, why not look at some of
the SUN ST D130 rack-mount storage devices ? I picked one up on Ebay
for $100AUD with 3 x 18Gb FC drives - you might need to add 4 or 5 of
them, but you could
Hi John.
On Saturday 06 August 2005 23:26, you wrote:
On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 08:55, Hartwig Atrops wrote:
...
I'll just say it so someone else doesn't have to, a SparcStation 5 and
an Ultra 5 are mch different animals.
That's true. A Sparcstation 5 is a 32 bit machine whith SCSI
Hi.
On Sunday 07 August 2005 13:20, John Bowden wrote:
Can any one tell me where to find the woody iso's I have had a look at the
debian site but cant seem to find them, only the latest (3.1)
Did you try Debian Sarge (=3.1)? At the time I installed Debian on my SS5
Woody was the stable
Hi all.
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 ram,
though I'm not sure until they arrive. I'm planning on learning about
clustering, and I am reasonably new to Linux (been running Mandrake),
Hello.
On Monday 23 May 2005 20:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello group, Thanks a bunch for replying my earlier question.
I'm having problems in installting the X windows. I indexed the
packages using CDROM and tried to install the same. Nothing seems to
happen. Your help will be
Hi all.
I recently updateted my Sarge installation on my Ultra 30 and had the same
problem since then. US type 5 keyboard, installed in english.
Today I first changed the XF86config-4 according to the advice below - didn't
help. Then I removed the ';' as described in
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:42, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
...
Hartwig,
I have done as was suggested and am using the sunffb driver. I
still get the No devices detected error message. Would you be able
to email a copy of your XF86Config-4 file ?
For me it was ok to manually put
Hi.
I am using the stock 2.4.18 that came with Woody 3.0r2. How do I check
for Creator support in it ?
Good question. I never tried to find out before ...
I played around a little bit. When you compile your own kernel, you get a
file called System.map. It contains the names and addresses of
On Monday 22 November 2004 20:23, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
'allo,
Hello, too.
I've got an Ultra2 Creator, and am unable to get the X Server
started. What is the X Server I should be using on such a machine ?
I currently have fbdev selected as that was the default selection
when I
Hi.
On Friday 22 October 2004 10:12, J. Michael McGarrah wrote:
I'm unable to get to the text mode terminals once I start X11 on my
system. I'm running the most current unstable debian for sparc on an
Ultra 60.
Alt-F1 / Ctrl-Alt-F1 do not break out of X to a text console mode. If I
don't
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 installation system (I want
to install systems without
On Friday 09 July 2004 09:09, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote:
Dear listmembers,
Hi.
I just installed sarge on my U60. Now, I do not get X11 to boot. Would this
be the right list to send /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there any
documentation out on how to configure the X-server (i. e. which graphics
Hi.
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 09:32, James Nelson wrote:
All right. I've also tried booting from floppy, only to get an illegal
instruction. Then I tried a netboot, to get the same problem - it
downloads the boot file, and then halts with an illegal instruction
error. I know it's not a
Hi.
On Friday 05 March 2004 21:36, James Nelson wrote:
I have a sparcstation 20 I am trying to install 3.0 stable onto, and
have a question. The system boots fine from the CD's, but it hangs with
a no console found - try passing an init= option error. I have a
GX-series SBus video card, and
Hi Gabor.
No need to burn images.
It's just a while ago I had to solve that problem. I checked it yesterday
before I answered your question, but I did not wait long enougth to see the
error message when CD boot started.
You are right, you have to specify a root device. Take that one specified
Hi.
The sparc64 image seems to be not gziped. Type in
/boot/sparc64
at the silo promt.
Fixed in 3.0r1.
Regards,
Hartwig
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 20:11, Gabor Szilagyi wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to migrate a ULTRA10 machine from Solaris to Debian 3
(like linux better).
When I boot from
Hi Rafael.
Hmmm.
Last week I bougth a brand new SCSI drive, Hitachi (ex IBM) Ultrastar, 36 GB.
Labeled as Ultra 320 LVD/SE SCSI. I just pluged it into an SS20 as the second
drive. On boot, I get a message about missing SUN disk label, but the machine
is booting without problems from boot
Hi Ayo
I have an SS20 running Debian Woody with sbus graphics, kernel 2.4.?
configured and compiled by myself. X works fine on that machine.
At the moment, I do not have access to my SS20 - if you don't have a solution
until friday, send me a mail. I can send you my XF86Config if you want.
Hello Tim.
I had that The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. stuff a
while ago, too. For me, it seems to be the general error message if the
machine does not know what to do. On my machine the CD-drive was broken.
Is your boot configuration ok? I assume you will get that
Hi.
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 01:46, Nicolas WILL wrote:
On my SS20 I compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with SMP support. I discovered that
the machine would boot beyond the simple kernel startup only once every 5
to 10 trys.
Hmm, I have similar problems. I have a SS20 with two 125 MHz Ross
Hi.
I had similar problems installing an SS5 clone. As fare as I remember, I
solved it by installing the base systems from floppy, later on I could use
the CD set as the installation media.
Regards,
Hartwig
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 22:10, Luca Zampetti wrote:
Yes, I know that this
Hi.
I received my SS20 without documentation, too. But I found usefull
informations on the web. My favorite site is in german, I think it does not
make sense to send you the link. Does it?
The refresh rate depends on the monitor you use. Try to config X with xf86cfg.
Would you like to have a
Hi.
What is standard?
I have an SBUS graphics card in my SS20, it uses the suncg6 driver. If you
use the onboard graphics (with VSIMM module), you will need a different
driver. And if you use an SBUS graphics other than mine (TGX I think) maybe,
too.
The mouse device is /dev/sunmouse, the
Hi.
On Friday 22 November 2002 18:13, Emanuel Schmid wrote:
hi
i know that smp and 2.4 on sun4m is a problem and that some people here
don't like question about this but i'm asking anyway assuming that there
are some that actually run 2.4 with smp on ss10.
I use 2.4.18 on my SS20 (2 Ross
Hi.
Some comments.
On Saturday 23 November 2002 02:46, you wrote:
rehi
I use 2.4.18 on my SS20 (2 Ross Hypersparc 125 MHz, 196 MB).
Sometimes (not very often) the machine freezes for a while when X is
starting during the boot process (network alive at that moment). But
overall, it
Hi.
I have a Sparcstation 5 clone with a Sun 4 keyboard, and during Debian
installation (I do not think this is the reason) I run into a problem. The
machine behaved as if the Return key was permanently pressed. I switched off
and removed the keycaps, but could not find any mechanical problem.
Thank you for the information.
Hmm, I installed the Woody testing on that machine, and it worked fine. And I
have that testing state on my SS20 together with a kernel 2.4.18 compiled by
myself, not everything configuered yet, but it workes fine, too. What has
changed?
Regards,
Hartwig
Hello everybody.
I have problems installing woody on a SparcStation 5 Clone. I checked the
archive, but I could not find any hint.
Some months ago, I installed a woody (testing state) without problems - my
first Linux on a Sparc. But this installation died during an online update.
So I try
Hello all.
Some new informations regarding my problem (see my last posting): I attached
a CD-ROM drive and tried to install from it. That failed, too. But the error
message on tty3 was a little bit different.
The hfs.o error still shows up, but the installation doesn't stop here. A
little bit
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