Re: PROM installing woody on a SPARC running potato

2002-10-06 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:32:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Debian SPARC folk, First a trivial question: can a flag be set so that the PROM in an old SPARC 2 (ROM Rev. 2.4.1) automatically goes into new mode rather than prompting with Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new

Re: Compile libssl or make ssh not slow

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Zimmerman
In addition to the other suggestions that were made in this thread, it is useful to specify the blowfish cipher to speed things up on slower machines. Here is a sample .ssh/config entry that helps: Host dog-slow Cipher blowfish Compression no I have found that the initial connection time

Re: Again ss20 serial...

2002-06-11 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:32:40AM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: On Jun 11, Marco Gaiarin illuminated : I've done some search with google. Seems that effectively sparc HW have the serial limited to 38400, more (but nonstandard) higer speed are not reilable. But i've found only

Re: shuting up unimplemented Sparc system call *** messages

2002-02-03 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:31:24PM +, Graham/Aniartia wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2002 3:02 pm, Ben Collins wrote: How are you being bombarded? I'll be working in say emacs typing away on a script I'll get these messages over-writing the information on screen this will happen about

2.4 on an IPX

2002-02-03 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:09:35PM +, Graham/Aniartia wrote: SparcStation2 which, I've been lead to belive, isn't supported by 2.4.* kernel. Is this true? Where can I find out the current status? I have a Magma sbus serial card in my IPX (not supported in linux) and I thought I'd have a

Unimplemented SPARC system calls

2002-02-01 Thread Mark Zimmerman
I've recently installed woody on an IPX (and updated to the 2.2.20 kernel and I've noticed the following oddities in dmesg: init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 portmap[104]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 87 cp[123]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 mv[142]: Unimplemented SPARC system

Re: SparcStation4 reconstructable crash

2002-01-31 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:58:28AM +0100, Alexander Koponen wrote: Hello! Congratulate me on my first summit to a mailinglist. =) Here is a story about a couple of SparcStation4s. I have a SparcStation4 which I intended as server so I installed Debian Woody on it - Base Install and ssh,

Re: Those who has successfully netboot Debian, Give me a help!

2002-01-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:40:34PM -0800, Gavinux Li wrote: I have a IPX 48M ram, ether net, 500M HD, no keyboard, no monitor. I use serial console to connect to that IPX from other linux PC. I have tried to net boot my IPX from a redhat linux server for 1 month, but never succedded. It

Enabling serial console on an IPX

2002-01-27 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I've gotten a base system installed now through the net boot and when I boot from a serial console, it gets through the bootup sequence and then hangs at the following: INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast:

IPX net boot freezes at Booting Linux...

2002-01-25 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I'm trying to boot a sparc IPX off of the network. The stuff on the server side seems to be OK since the RARP works and the kernel gets downloaded. Then, it freezes. Here is how it looks on a serial console: (Tried actual console too, no difference) Type b (boot), c (continue), or n