Trouble with upgrade to unstable on SS20 SMP

2004-07-15 Thread James Nelson
I had Woody running on this thing for a while, and recently decided to upgrade to unstable (new QFE card - want iptables for a router/Squid box). I am having a bit of a problem, though - doing apt-get dist-upgrade fails, saying that due to my CPU, libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-13) needs kernel 2.4.21 or

Disregard newbie blithering above.

2004-03-20 Thread James Nelson
Just figured out that the tftpboot.img file I was using was for unstable - the whole devfsd thing finally clued me in. Sigh. Figured it was something simple that I'd overlooked. Is there any way possibly labeling boot image files as to their version?

devfsd not downloaded?

2004-03-20 Thread James Nelson
I was busy doing other things for awhile (and have had no time to play with my SS20), but have run into a couple of issues. 1. When I get ready to install the kernel and modules, it asks for the kernel files in dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/current/sparc32, but both the ftp.debian.org directo

Got the SS20 working!! (woo-hoo!)

2004-03-10 Thread James Nelson
Downloaded the tftpboot.img file fom phunnypharm.org, netbooted, and the installer is running as I write this! I'm afraid the kernel images in r2 for the sun4m architecture may not be kosher - maybe someone with more Debian experience than I can verify this. Thanks for the assistance, everyon

Re: More SS20 confusion...

2004-03-09 Thread James Nelson
Hartwig Atrops wrote: 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 "

More SS20 confusion...

2004-03-09 Thread James Nelson
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 massive hardware failure (I've got Solaris 9 running on it

Re: Newbie Sparcstation 20 question

2004-03-07 Thread James Nelson
Hartwig Atrops wrote: 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" erro

Newbie Sparcstation 20 question

2004-03-05 Thread James Nelson
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 the only thing I could find after quite a bit of Googl