John Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you please spell it out for me. How do I want to lay out the disk?
Its strange, I do have Mandrake 7.1 running on another disk (out of the
machine at this time) but I do not remember handling the disk
partitioning differently than I would on an
Hi all,
Anybody out there using 2.4.x and automount successfully ?
For some reason it doesn't work here on an SS5 and
the latest kernel from vger.
Tried both autofs and autofs4 to no avail...
It works with 2.2.x...
Manual mounts also work..
(and autofs with 2.4.x on x86 works...)
The syslog
John Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. I would not have found that in a hurry. In my case. the
incorrect soft link was in /target/boot/vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21
I changed that just before the make boot disk step, and the boot disk
step failed again. when I rebooted, I got an
James Ascroft-Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not sure if this is the correct email address but I am having a problem
booting into Debian on my SPARCstation IPX.
Actually I have two IPXs with
48Mb RAM and 16Mb RAM, ROM Rev 2.4 and ROM Rev. 2.3 respectively.
They both act in
DREIER Frédéric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thx Ben, it works when I include ip in boot command.
Now I try to setup the bootp instead of the above solution (more easy for
users).
- I started bootpd (bootptab), nfs-sever, etc.
- I just boot using boot net
.. Linux boot, but don't make
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the help getting my SS10 booting from HD. Works like a
charm.
I've decided to go all out and get woody on there. However, it doesn't
appear that Xsun has been upgraded to 4.0.2 like most of the other X
apps. Is this gonna throw me for a big ugly
Olivier Bornet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seem a lot of problem with the network. For example :
home:obornet 595% telnet home smtp
Trying 10.44.0.20...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No buffer space available
home:obornet 596%
home:obornet 596% telnet localhost smtp
Trying
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mar 21 00:51:59 home kernel: neighbour table overflow
This is a bad kernel/network driver problem.
Last I saw these it was a long time ago.
Perhaps a search on the list archives might
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a SS10 with two 500 MB drives ( roughly ). I've made sure that
both have the Sun whole-disk partition on them ( 's' in fdisk ), but it
seems no matter what I do, I can't get it to boot off the internal disk.
Here's the partitioning scheme now ( sizes are
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:38:16PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote:
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:38:25PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote:
- Are there any issues with 2.4.x on sun4m ?
A few, but you don't need kernel
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:38:25PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote:
- Are there any issues with 2.4.x on sun4m ?
A few, but you don't need kernel 2.4.x to run woody.
2.4.2-ac18 would not compile on sparc/woody . Do other
2.4.x kernels compile fine ?
- Any
Hi everyone,
I'd like some input about upgrading an SS5 from potato to woody.
Specifically:
- Are there any issues with 2.4.x on sun4m ?
- Any caveats with reiserfs ?
- How about XF4.0.2 with a cgsix ?
Also, what's the status of the installer package in woody ?
I didn't find anything looking
Ruben Aquino Luna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xdm is working OK. At the xdm prompt I can login as root but not as normal
user. I mean, xdm accepts the password for all users, but for a
normal user, after accepting it, xdm is restarted. It's the same if I
login in text mode:
$ startx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) What's the general state of the debian-sparc port (from a day to day usage
viewpoint, rather than a feature-list viewpoint). I'm trying to decide what
OS to run on my SS20, between debian, OpenBSD, and Solaris.. Basically, I
want to run a bunch of xterms and a
Ruben Aquino Luna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But now I have problems starting X. It doesn't work as normal user. It
works OK as root, but I won't be executing X as root :). And it should
work.
I have the message:
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
in xdm.log
sylvain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, i eventually get a null-modem cable for my old sparc, so minicom
allows me using serial line as terminal emulator.
One things annoys me, what should i sent to make the sparc understand
Stop-a (or L1-A)?
In minicom try 'send break' (ctrl-a f).
HTH,
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Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
This is probably none of my business, but I would like to make an
observation, and follow it with a silly question.
I subscribed to debian-sparc on September 13, 2000. At the time I was
having problems with my ELC. After that I had a
Sabino Maggi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much memory do these machines have ? My advice is:
= 16 Mb , Sun4c, go for NetBSD, it really shines.
= 32 Mb , Sun4m, go for Debian, it rocks.
16-32 Mb, toss a coin...
Do you mean:
= 16 Mb _AND_ Sun4c, go for...
or
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:33:28PM +0100, Guenter Millahn wrote:
Dear Linux'ers,
I have some old diskless SPARCstations of 4c and 4m series (SLC, LC, LX).
I want to re-animate them as Desktopsthem using Debian.
How much memory do these machines
sylvain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just had a sparcstation1, given by my university. Unfortunately, it
has no screen, and i don't know how live is the disk.
I'd like to have a bit fun with, including eventually put a debian on it
(as i have on 2 i386 already). i was looking a way of
1 -
Marko Dinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
No, unfortunately I have no Sun instalation disks or CD's and I don't have a
CD-rom drive. I have a network card build in but I need the adapter to
ethernet (from the 25 pin port). How would I export my hard drive from the
bios so I can mount it from
Stuart Auchterlonie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip...clipp..
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l ssh
: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
: | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
: |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: ...)
James Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I see a bunch of tftp data packets and acknowledgements going between the
machines. The last data packet is smaller than the rest, so I assume it's
finished the file. After that, there's no network activity whatsoever.
Having reviewed the install
James Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I'm now trying to boot off linux-a.out via a symlink and tftp which gets
me a bit further. NFS on my boot machine seems to be broken, so once I've
fixed that hopefully it's done.
Ok, if you want nfsroot as well, you need to boot like
boot net
Gabor Zoltan Csejtey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Hi,
I have some news. After sending some text to the printer (DEskJet
720C) the sun halted but then I unplugged the printer cable from the
sun it came alive again. So it seems a hardware problem ?
Is there a similar printer port on the Ultra
Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
modprobe parport_ax
modprobe lp
What kernel and arch is this ?
hmmm as no one else has answered
have you tried printing through the lpr daemon?
Or tried insmod'ing parport first as well.
The sparclinux has no such options, at least not in
Joshua Uziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debian on my SS5/170 would lock up for no known reason after about 2
days if I left it idle... no messages, no nothing. This was with
potato, a little before its release. Meanwhile, my SS5/70 and SS5/110
are rock solid for me...
SS5/110 is rock solid
Mark Mohrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where are the nfs and ftp daemons?
If you are running potato, then you need the following packages:
nfs-server
ftpd
I think I'm not getting the big picture here. Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
You probably didn't notice these were separate
Cristian Constantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oct 4 18:13:52 xxx kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ntpd...
Oct 4 18:13:52 xxx kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ntpd...
Oct 4 18:15:20 xxx kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for sshd...
Kernel VM errors. What
Rafael E. Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] et al. wrote.
However, when I log in, the colors are all very poor, it seems
that the clients are running at 8 bpp. The X server is running at 16
bpp.
Any advise will be welcome.
SPARC machines (and especially the 32-bit ones) are not known for
Hendrik Seffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There really isn't a version of communicator or navigator for
Sparc-Linux, is
there? The netscape site seems to think everyone running Linux would be
on an i386 architecture .. or am I missing something?
There is a Netscape 4.51 (IIRC)
Hello all,
This is prolly not sparc specific, but I currently cannot test this with i386.
Are there any known incompatibilities between Debian's lprng
and the lpr-package used by redhat ?
I ask this because whenever I print to a remote ps-printer from my sparc
I receive 3 emails from the
Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get
pivo:~# startx
(using VT number 7)
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
Now, I do have the
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 00:12:31 -0400
From: Sergey V Kovalyov [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does _anyone_ have a SparcStation 5 with Linux ?
It seems ONLY SparcStation 5 is susceptible to the problem.
doing strace -ff -p `pidof inetd` and telnetting to ident port
loks it up reliably on the fork call.
From: Sergey V Kovalyov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 00:12:31 -0400
It seems ONLY SparcStation 5 is susceptible to the problem.
doing strace -ff -p `pidof inetd` and telnetting to ident port
loks it up reliably on the fork call..
Transferring that same hard drive onto a SparcStation
Hi all,
Does anyone know which module this error refers to ?
modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-010b
Is there a generic list somewhere ? I searched the kernel source tree
to no avail...
TIA
--
RM
snip
Michael Anthon wrote:
This doesn't explain my problem either. I was using the woody 2.2.15
kernel deb and even without gpm running the X server would cause the
keyboard/mouse to lock up, but it does not crash X (you can telnet/ssh
in and execute X apps to display on the server). Using a
Hi all,
Well, I've also run into some trouble after upgrading
the labs' Sparc Station 5 to stock kernel 2.2.15, compiled with
same (AFAIK) options as 2.2.14. Otherwise it's pure potato.
I get errors like these in /var/log/syslog
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb1
modprobe: modprobe:
Others wrote:
This _is_ a weird one; why does the optimized code seem to run fine on
To be honest, ldconfig runs fine on my Sparc LX (sun4m). But I figure it's
It runs fine here too (sun4m). But I had the same problem ~3 months ago.
I don't remember changing any optimizations though, just
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a sparcstation5 running potato, and whenever I have a big file
transfer or something, I develop lots of defunct network processes.
Things like my imap and ssh servers will die, and the system will need
to be hard rebooted since it can't shutdown
Hi,
When I'm tring to use the 1.44-floppy boot images from
debian-sparc/slink (both with and without the sun4u one)
(The SUN machine works when booted in Solaris)
From floppy ?
Just a guess, have you read the faq at www.ultralinux.org about
some Ultras not booting from floppy ?
I'm not sure
Hi all,
Can someone shed a light on kernel compile options on a sparc sun_4m ?
Specifically:
I noticed that my kernel (2.2.14) compiles with -no_FPU or such and found
that math_emu.c gets compiled...
However /proc/cpuinfo says:
cpu : Fujitsu MB86904
fpu : Lsi
Replying to myself,
I found the faq at www.ultralinux.org
responding to SUN4 and SUNOS questions.
What about the math stuff though ?
RM
--
Give me Debian or pencil and paper
Hi Baudin,
ldconfig does a Seg fault.
I had the same problem a while ago. I'm not 100% sure how I corrected it, but
the following might help:
su
mv /etc/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.broken
mv /etc/ld.so.cache /etc/ld.so.cache.broken
/sbin/ldconfig -v
If this fails, then maybe
apt-get install
none of above save me,
I must admit I'm stuck...
Ah la la,
This smells of some libc conflict..
Things to try:
apt-get install --reinstall libc6
apt-get install --reinstall ldso
or
apt-get install --reinstall libc6-dev
apt-get source --compile ldso
Other suggestions anybody ?
--
Give me
Faut pas desesperer
I hope my computer is not dying ?!
Is there any hardware testing soft anywhere ?
You can run tests from the OpenProm at boot time. IIRC you can say
test all
at the boot prompt.
I doubt that this is a hw related. I had this problem ~1 month ago.
But i just can't
Thanks Ben for the clarifications.
First let me say that overall I'm very impressed and pleased with debian-sparc.
And my mail was more intended on getting a response/pointing deficiencies
than as a rant, but at 2am on monday the tone was maybe too grumpy...
I understand that potato is still
Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not use MULE 4 (Emacs 20.5)? I did development work for it on
SPARC Potato.
Problem is it doesn't support wnn... only skk which, ahem..%sucks%..
I also built Mule 2.3 on it without much trouble a while ago for
research purposes using the patch to
Hi all,
A coupla days ago I successfully installed debian on a sparc 5 and I'm left
wondering about the status of debian-sparc vs the potato freeze.
I understand that sparc support was added in slink so it's still in
it's infancy I guess.
But I wonder if sparc-potato will be ready with the other
After a night of toiling I got Potato on my Sparc 5 (Microsparc II, 128Mb,
ROM v2.10)
Thanks for the advice jedd and max ;)
I thought it would be good to share my experience so here goes.
-created sun4cdm rescue and driver floppy using those
from marcus.debian.net (jan15). No root.bin floppy
Hello,
baudin maxime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
strange, pppconfig works here(not the ppp link, because
Ah, maybe you misread the sentence I wrote
1)uninstall pppconfig fails.
I want to un-install ppp and pppconfig because there is no use for it here.
But the un-install script is broken.
Hi,
Is anybody cross-compiling packages for sparc on, say linux-x86 ?
I understand it should be possible by installing the cross-compiling
tools.
The sparc5 I recently installed debian is a bit slow...
Any advice/experiences welcome.
Tnx
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