Re: Again ss20 serial...

yes that's right. hardware limited to 38400. The OS on top of it doesn't make a difference. ./Jp -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || verum ipsum factum I A C -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close

go to new command > mode and do "boot /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0" SILO starts to load, but... > at the openboot prompt type: setenv boot_device /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 setenv auto_boot true ./jp -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Mail Server Questions

> On Dec 06, Del Campo, Damian illuminated : mor appropraite for debian-users but ... replied to anyway > 1) I want to set up a mail server to download my mail from a POP account on > www > 2) Have this downloaded mail available to various clients on my local lan > (windows & linux machines) but

Re: Disk partition on a Sparc 5

> On Oct 05, Craig Ian Dewick illuminated with a virtual scribe : > Why shouldn't the swap be in partition 1? That's where Sun's format > program defaults to placing the swap partition. With a Solaris or NetBSD > installation, I always set it up this way: > doesn't have to be. Leftover legacy f

Re: Possibly O.T. but need help

> On Oct 03, Michael Hicks illuminated with a virtual scribe : > You can try hitting Stop-A, and then telling the system to boot by typing > in `boot s' (or maybe it's `boot -s', I forget). This should hopefully > bring the system up in single-user mode. You might be able to get in > without a

Re: Ftp problem

> On Sep 10, Paulo Graça Rodrigues illuminated with a virtual scribe : > My problem with proftpd is that I can ftp localhost but when I ftp from > another machine I connect but it takes too long to get the user > and password prompt (more than 5 minutes...). > After getting my user/passwo

Re: Ftpd

> On Sep 06, Paulo Graça Rodrigues illuminated with a virtual scribe : > 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 archiv

Re: debian 2.2 on sparc IPX

> On Aug 31, Forrest Whitesides illuminated with a virtual scribe : > I can ping machines on my local IP range (10.0.0.x), but nothing on the > outside of the network. There is a PIX firewall installed on the LAN, but no > proxy server. Does anyone have any ideas what may be wrong? > Does your g

Re: SPARC 20 firmware error at boot

> On Aug 24, Noah Meyerhans illuminated with a virtual scribe : > Thanks! Now I only need to determine whether or not it's worth it to me > to buy a replacement NVRAM chip... ;^) > what's probably happened is the internal battery has died. It is a trivial matter to attach a new lithium/NiCad

Re: SPARC 20 firmware error at boot

> On Aug 23, Andreas Behnert illuminated with a virtual scribe : > I can't exactly remember the URL. If I'm right it was something > like squirrel.com and the page was called "Sun Host ID FAQ" or > something like that. av.com or google.com should know this page... > > google is your friend. or

Re: boot disks joy

> On Aug 16, Jp illuminated with a virtual scribe : > > On Aug 15, Ben Collins illuminated with a virtual scribe : > > > It shouldn't need to do that. You specify the boot disk location > > explicitly like: > > ahh ignore me. my enter key autorepeats on the odd occasion. i got it happening

Re: boot disks joy

> On Aug 15, Ben Collins illuminated with a virtual scribe : > It shouldn't need to do that. You specify the boot disk location > explicitly like: > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/ > That is the default. What did you put in? > the installer asked for `wh

boot disks joy

just installed the woody set on my classic (sun4m) it worked like a charm. *bounce* Kudos to all. only thing I'd request is the ability to select manual files location ala potato so we don't have to wait for the installer to traverse the entire debian archive searchin for rescue.bin /Jp...

Re: printing on a ss4 ?

> On Jul 11, Bostjan Muller illuminated with a virtual pen : > I am verry new to sparc architecture, and therefore also to linux on sparc. I > have set up debian linux 2.2 on a sparcstation 4 and am having one problem - I > don't know how to set up a printer on it -I don't even know if printing

Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.

> On Jul 04, Ben Collins illuminated with a virtual pen : > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:12:13PM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote: > > nothing apparently. > > # mount > > /dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount -ro) > looking at that string, it might be seeing the last -ro and mouting it read only aga

Re: KDE on sparc linux?

> On May 23, David illuminated with a virtual pen : > I am looking for a WP application but all the ones I have perused seem > incompatible with Sparc Linux. > er, apt get vim tetex-{base,doc,bin,extra} or apt-get install lyx works for me :P apt-get install abiword applixware has a solaris po

Re: booting sparc

> On May 22, Artur Gorniak illuminated with a virtual pen : > I have problem with silo. > it's installing on external drive and system is booting from internal one. > > when I dd first.b to internal my computer hanged. > is it possible to install SILO on specified hard drive? > Linux see externa

Re: Problems when "cloning" an hard-disk

> > I have a Sparc IPX with with two hard-disks, an external (slow!) 2 GB hd > > for the OS (Debian GNU/Linux potato) and an internal hd mounted as > > /home. > > I want to "clone" my existing system on a new disk. What I have done is: > > copying all the data acroos is 99% of the work. all you nee

Re: [2.2r3] php4 4.0.3pl1-0potato2 missing for alpha and sparc

> On Apr 15, George A. Dowding illuminated with a virtual pen : > > who's going to recompile this version of php4 for stable? Here's the > > source: > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/php4/php4_4.0.3pl1.orig.tar.gz > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/php4/php4_4.0.3pl1

Re: Building a kernal from offial sources.

> On Mar 28, John Turnbull illuminated with a virtual pen : > I am obliged to build a new kernel that has been patched for ntp > pulse-per-second timing. To do this you need to use the official kernel > sources from www.kernel.org at specific patch levels. Now I expect that > the standard Intel k

Re: SparcStation 1 w/ Debian boot prob.

> On Mar 26, Michael Hoye scratched in indelible ink : > Hah! I now have a computer, where before I only had a doorstop! Success is > mine! > whoo hoo! Good on ya! > For my next question - once I'm in Debian, how do I go about mounting a > SCSI CD? The "mount /cdrom" you'd expect to work, fstab

Re: cfdisk

> On Mar 23, DREIER Frédéric scratched in indelible ink : > Where can I find cfdisk for my sparc5? > (I need to make non-interactive partitionning) > It is not part of the sparc distro as it does not support bsd disklabels :( on i386 and alpha it is part of util-linux. /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Bla

Re: ELC: potatoe or slink?

> On Mar 23, Ashley Ward scratched in indelible ink : > me to bring my doorbell custom audio back up ;). I've thrown away the > screen part of the ELC, leaving just the CPU board and daughter board with > the connectors. I've soldered onto the SCSI port, enabling me to connect a > 200Mb hard dis

Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

> On Mar 01, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey scratched in indelible ink : > Another problem related to location of var. I moved it from the / > (root) to different partition and made a symlink. This link happens to > disapper when I reboot the machine then it hangs when it's looking for > /var/run and other

Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed

> On Mar 01, Q89029292 scratched in indelible ink : > replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed > packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr > directory. > when I hosed my alpha by screwing up the partition table and lost *all* of /usr :( I grepp

Re: TFTP install -> SILO woes!

> On Feb 01, Jack Morgan scratched in indelible ink : > I just installed Potato onto a SS20, rebooted, then The PROM gave an > error like "SILO buggy old PROM can't boot after 1GB", etc. This is my first > Sparc, but I suspect that I need to "setenv" the correct boot partition. My > only HDD

Re: stuff

> On Jan 26, Doug Alcorn scratched in indelible ink : try setting console to the serial port: setenv console=ttya (or ttyb) at the PROM. or passing the same to the kernel bootflags string: console=/dev/ttyS0 /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PR

Re: printing on sparc

> On Jan 18, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey scratched in indelible ink : > I sent a mail earlier this day to the debian-sparc list. Haven't you > read it? I have problems with printing too. > I didn't have /dev/lp* after installing Debian 2.2r0. > hmmm as no one else has answered have you tried printin

Re: IDPRAM problem

> On Jan 13, Alexander Gilman Carver scratched in indelible ink : > My Sun IPX was working just fine up until recently. Now it claims that > the IDPROM contents are invalid (and I can see this clearly since the > etherenet address and Host ID are all f's). > > What can I do to recover my system?

Re: locales

> On Dec 18, Bruno Waes scratched in indelible ink : > after an apt-get upgrade the new locale systems got installed, but now i > dont have the right keymaps on my type5 keyboard ... > now in /etc/locale.gen the line > en_US ISO-8859-1 > is uncommented, but that doenst seem to be the right one > a

Re: Getting started via serial line connection

> On Dec 15, Andreas Tille scratched in indelible ink : > There is no graphics card in the machine and I have to connect via > serial line. I found a searial cable which I used to connect a laptop > with a desktop years ago and adapted it via gender-changer and > 25pin to 9 pin adapter to a Linux

Re: Help installing on and old SPARC 5

> On Nov 07, graziano scratched in indelible ink : > Actually I decided to use a CDROM because I couldn't get my x86 linux > box to be a tftp server for the sparc. rarpd crashed as soon as the > sparc tries to boot. And I don't have any other no-x86 box around that I > can use. What do you use for

Re: mpg123 for Debian 2.2 SPARC - .deb available?

> On Nov 06, Mike Hebel scratched in indelible ink : > Now I want to play .mp3 files on it but I can not get mpg123 to compile > properly. Is there a SPARC binary package for Debian out there somewhere? > I didn't see one on ftp.debian.org but it's possible that I missed one. > > Anybody got a l

Re: booting, mounting / and software raid

> On Oct 26, andy scratched in indelible ink : > i received one yes vote and one no vote for whether swap can be mirrored, > but everything i found on the net at large points to no... > Why do you really want to mirror swap? it should be possible. set up the md device, mkswap /dev/md? and off yo

Re: floppy installation & NVRAM

> On Oct 25, Bill Jonas scratched in indelible ink : > Hmm, I don't know about a floppy, but I've net-booted a Sparc that had a > bad NVRAM chip. This was after setting the hostid and MAC address > following the instructions at > . > It

Re: Potato: SPARCstation ELC white line on console

munched. > > My ELC does the same. However, not when in X. Mine now only occasionaly uses the text console so I never notice it. /Jp.. enjoying black and white -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy Words are fingers th

Re: more on the ELC

55.255.255.0:::', where .22 is > needle, > and .4 was farstar. > this is the bit that I have never ever seen documented. a boot command for nfs-root. Thank you, thank you thank you. which, btw, what do the segments after nfsroot=... mean? /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Bl

more on the ELC

reset errors. However, what I was trying to do was do an nfs-root install. The documentation in the install docs was rather minimal. Has anyone worked on it recently? ? or can anyone point out a good way to learn it? *wave* -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computation

Re: jumper seetings

icker way to find out if you have this problem. HTH, HAGD -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy Words are fingers that point at the moon. Once you see the moon, you no longer need the fingers. -- someone, somewhere

tfp installing an ELC

y. then it says: Watchdog reset Window underflow any ideas? It does still boot off the old install disk (potato ~6 months ago), but I have lost the disk that had / on it so can't do anything with it :( /Jp. -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [

Re: AMD Lance problem on ELC

sparky lights on your board you know you have *real* problems. (referring to a now ex-486 sx/25 overclocked to 50MHz :) /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy We have what is termed a one way gateway on our house. Computers are allowed to enter, but they may not leave.

Re: Success, Appreciation, Q: SunPC Accel'r

nd the x86 version on the 486... > well it would mean that you could run applications that for various reasons are only released on x86. Like StarOffice, et al. Enjoy that fun and games with it! *wibble* -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational

Re: apt-get proxy setup

ble main > contrib non-US > exporting the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables will fix this. (man sources.list) bash/sh/ksh export http_proxy='squid.cqu.edu.au:3128' or csh: setenv http_proxy='squid.cqu.edu.au:3128' /Jp. -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere

Re: Potato Upgrade.

re is correct. for example, say you have a kernel version kernel_source-2.0.34-1.tar.gz then the *only package you should apply to it will be of the form: kernel-patch-2.0.34-1.tar.gz, or kernel-patch-2.0.35.tar.gz anything else will be silly. /Jp. -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Student o

Re: TFTPbooting potato?

t build. > no. I have tried to get gcc2.95-2 to compile as a 386i --> sparc x-compiler but it would not build. If you get the m68k one working, I would love to hear from you. compiling on an ELC compared to a dual celery 450 is .... marked. cya, -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Do no

Re: fdisk and native partition formats (was: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink))

a can work with either 386 partitioning or BSD style. It depends on the boot method used as to which partitioning style can be used. There are two console types available and both are not available on all machine types :( cya, -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] gotta www.wibble.org again

Re: [WARNING] current state of modutils in potato

en the user can then install explicitly which one he/she needs. just thoughts, -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] gotta www.wibble.org again

Re: Configure tape drive ?

What happens with me often (cause I swap drives between machines regularly) is that I will have two drives on a SCSI bus with the same ID number. The BIOS will recognise one, but not both (and does this without errors on the drive that is detected too), so checking that one would be high on priorities

tftping an ELC

is a multiple of 4 bytes and it's not gzipped. It may not be in a.out format, but is this necessary? and if so, how does one go about converting an elf binary into an a.out one? any ideas? *wave* -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] gotta www.wibble.org again

xfree86 config package

i`m trying to find the xf86config package. it's not in the sparc-binary (potato) tree, but is in the alpha and intel trees. *confuzzled* -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] gotta www.wibble.org again

partitioning HD's

I am just embarking on installing linux on an ELC of mine, and was wondering what the best/easiest method of partitioning the hard drive was, and what to install in the way of boot sectors, stuff (aka lilo for intel, milo/aboot for alpha)? all help will be appreciated *wave* -- Jean-Paul