Re: Sun Blade 100 -- Installer can't see disks

2009-08-31 Thread Jordan Bettis
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:47:48PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:36:42PM -0500, Jordan Bettis wrote: > > The image boots fine, and the installer progresses to disk detection, > > at which point it says that it can not detect the disk, aska me to >

Sun Blade 100 -- Installer can't see disks

2009-08-31 Thread Jordan Bettis
27; from OBP, it produces the "bad magic number in disk label" error. I did remove the disk at one point, but I've checked several times to make sure everything is seated properly. Thanks for any help anybody may have on this. Please let me know if any more information might be useful.

Re: Bug#500358: Fix found

2008-11-25 Thread Jordan Bettis
s a bit outdated (the stuff about mod utils in the woody howto doesn't apply anymore), but it's a pretty comprehensive overview of how to build a kernel using make-kpkg. Feel free to do whatever you want with that deb file. Cheers, -- Jordan Bettis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Bug#500358: Fix found

2008-11-24 Thread Jordan Bettis
is also built using initrd. <http://hafd.org/~jordanb/linux-image-2.6.26murat-custom_murat001_sparc.deb> Sorry about the name. I got a bit carried away. Thanks, -- Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Type 7 keyboard problem?

2008-05-08 Thread Jordan Bettis
ype 6 is basically a flimsy peice of crap. -- Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use a serial console on Ultra 1?

2007-08-08 Thread Jordan Bettis
and then there was a short between some of the wires that I didn't discover until I had it all taped up. I then went to Radio Shack and found one of those nine pin dongles that do the same thing for $5. Radio Shack might not have them anymore but I'm sure you can find them on the inter

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-24 Thread Jordan Bettis
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:45:41PM +, Jordan Bettis wrote: > Also I think the production costs of a new machine are often far more > important than energy use. FWIW I decided to google to see if I could find stuff to back up this claim. I found plenty: <http://www.chemistry.org/p

Re: Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-18 Thread Jordan Bettis
usefully recyclable in the machine is the metal of the case. There are also some trace precious metals in the components that can be extracted using a very dirty process, usually in polluted third-world cottege industry operations that make Alang look like not a bad place to work. -- Jordan Be

Re: Cant install php on debian sparc

2007-06-11 Thread Jordan Bettis
built and/or uploaded to security.debian.org. Unstable currently has a version conflict on the gimp in it which, according to the maintainer, is the fault of a slow SPARC buildd. It's been like this for several days. Whatever happened to that offer on here a while back to donate a new SPARC bui

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Jordan Bettis
wn good configuration and then archive that? I think there'd be value in having a working archived distro of the latest software (before abandonment) for people. -- Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB host adapter?

2007-04-30 Thread Jordan Bettis
Thanks to Martian, I've bought a sun video card from ebay. Hope I can get it working. I have another question: I'd like to see if I can get USB working on my Ultra 5. Anyone have any recommendations for a PCI host adapter that'll work with it? Thanks, -- Jordan Bettis -- Chic

Second video card in a SPARC Ultra 5

2007-04-26 Thread Jordan Bettis
ling to buy an X3668A as they are going for a reasonable price on ebay, but I'm afraid if the problem stems from bug 392312 or something that's not going to help me and I'll have just sunk more money into this project. At any rate, that's my situation right now. Very frusterating