Re: Install/upgrade report on Sparcstation LX

2005-11-07 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 15:16, Neil Pilgrim wrote: Next I tried to upgrade to sarge (over the network), but quite quickly ran into the previously reported problem about circular dependencies of the 2.4.x kernel and libc6. After quite a bit of painful struggling and

Install/upgrade report on Sparcstation LX

2005-11-07 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Hi all, After a few trials, and quite a lot of time, sarge is mostly set up on my Sparcstation LX. Machine specs (probably standard for an LX): - 50MHz (at least, based on the bogomips) MicroSparc, sun4m - 24M (6x4M) - ~350M /, ~50M swap I installed woody via an external SCSI CD-rom drive wit

Sun monitors (UK) [ASAP]

2005-10-19 Thread Neil Pilgrim
ors, but I thought I'd better ask, although as yet I don't know how many are available. Cheers, -- Neil Pilgrim, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Running on its side/front? (U1)

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Perhaps a stupid question, but has anyone had any problems with running an ultra-1 with the case on its side (or front)? There are some 'holes' in the case at the front of the Ultra-1s; I'm not sure whether these are for ventilation, but there are definite vents on either side. Also, not sure

Re: Sarge may be last Debian release for 32 bit sparc systems

2005-07-26 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Blars Blarson wrote: [...] Sun4m is the last supported 32-bit sparc architecture. Reportedly, the 2.6 kernel does not work in multi-processor mode on them, and dropping support of 2.4 from Etch is being discussed. Note that lack of hardware is not the problem, if anyone wants some sun4m systems

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 - SILO/initrd problems

2004-09-10 Thread Neil Pilgrim
[...installed debian kernel-image 2.6.8 package...] [...didn't work...] > P.S I tried adding "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" to the /boot/silo.conf > file.. and while linux then booted to my login prompt, the keyboard > mapping was incredibly messed up (tried lots of different keyboards, > too), when I

Sound on ultra-1

2004-09-02 Thread Neil Pilgrim
es it again...I can't remember how I recovered it last time!) Cheers, -- Neil Pilgrim