Re: Installing Etch on Sun Ultra 2

2007-12-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:27:58AM +0100, Yannick Palanque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 27 lines which said: I have a Sun Ultra (Enterprise) 2 and I would like to install Etch on it. It should work. I'm sure I will need TFP, ok. TFTP, yes. Whose is the best for Etch, a

Re: Installing Etch on Sun Ultra 2

2007-12-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:26:38PM +0100, Yannick Palanque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 47 lines which said: Here is a schematic, I think it'll be clearer. The Sun seems connected only by a serial cable? It has no Ethernet card? In that case, I believe it's over, I do not think the

Re: Sparc repository

2007-09-12 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:31:25AM +0200, Giasone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 17 lines which said: Hi, today i've installed debian on my sun ultra 5 because i want know better this platform, somebody could tell me a rich repository for sparc platform? What's wrong with the

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

2007-08-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 08:01:57AM +0100, Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 30 lines which said: In my experience, the simplest way is to use 'cu' (package 'cu'). In my opinion, it is much more painful than minicom. Anyway, if you use cu, the BREAK command, useful to bring

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

2007-08-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:56:21PM -0500, John Zbesko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 13 lines which said: How do I use a serial console and test if my Ultra is indeed working? My last Ultra 1 died one year ago but I have two Ultra 10 still working :-) In theory, the machine should

Re: Como instalo un debian en un Sun v210 micro sparc 64bits?

2006-11-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:18:18PM -0600, Victor Manuel Torres Velazque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 6 lines which said: Hola, soy estudiante de la universidad de colima y tengo como tarea el montar un servidor de ftp y correo en un servidor sun v210, y se me dificulta como hacerlo,

Re: kernel 2.6.14 on ultra 10

2006-09-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:46:08PM +0100, ayo Jegede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 19 lines which said: iam trying to move to kernel 2.6.14 form 2.4.27. but during boot time iam get the following after i and compiled and re-link etc..: I have 2.6.14 running on an Ultra10. The

Installing Debian on an Ultra 5

2006-06-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:55:56PM +0100, Kevin Fullerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 114 lines which said: The serial port marked A on the Ultra 5 is a DB25 Female, and the serial port marked B is a DB9 Male. I never used the Ultra 5 but it looks close from the Ultra 10. 1) Do

Kernel 2.6 : shutdown now impossible

2004-10-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
I just upgraded an UltraSparc 10 from kernel 2.4 to 2.6, using the Debian package in sarge: myriam:~ % dpkg -s kernel-image-2.6.8-1-sparc64 Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-sparc64 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Size: 21560 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team

Re: Semi-OT: Sun Ultra 10 Serial Consoles

2004-08-24 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:05:03PM -0500, Jacob Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 48 lines which said: I'm now getting output on the serial console, using minicom. However, everything I enter from the keyboard is echoed back as a 0. I do not see any other output from the box,

Cannot boot a Sparc Enterprise E250 with SMP

2004-07-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
I have an Ultra Sparc Enterprise E250, which can boot and work fine with an UP kernel (kernel-image-2.4.26-sparc64) but not with the SMP one (kernel-image-2.4.26-sparc64-smp): Sun (TM) Enterprise 250 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.26, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial

Installing Linux on a E250 with serial console: cannot get the boot prompt

2003-12-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Hello, everybody, I try to boot a Sun E250 which has no monitor or keyboard. Following the instructions in the UltraLinux FAQ URL:http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html, I configured a PC with FreeBSD and minicom to act as the serial console. When I power on the machine in the Diagnostics position,

Re: Release notes addendum (was: Re: slink_cd: still waiting on final boot/install setup)

1999-02-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 26 February 1999, at 17 h 37, the keyboard of Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it be added for sparc too ? It is also the first release of Debian GNU/Linux for sparc/ultra. Done (same text, with a word about the Ultra). I thought that Debian was not ready on the Ultra

Re: Missing Sparc packages in the last packages

1999-02-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 16 February 1999, at 19 h 13, the keyboard of James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mozilla does not appear. This is a serious problem because it is the only graphical Web browser in main. Que? What do you think arena, chimera2

Missing Sparc packages in the last packages

1999-02-16 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
In the last Packages file for Sparc (Feb. 14th): xlib6g depends on xbase, which is probably wrong (xbase is just a compatibility package because of the great X reorganization, no one should depend on it). It happens only on the Sparc. Mozilla does not appear.

Re: Missing Sparc packages in the last packages

1999-02-16 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 16 February 1999, at 12 h 51, the keyboard of Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried to compile it yet because it's such a disk space hog and I'm short on disk space on my buildd box. Probably it's safer to remove it from the packages set. Hop, Mozilla suppressed

Cannot install (floppy or net) on an Ultra 10

1998-04-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
First attempt of Linux installation on a Sparc. Since I don't have a CD, I tried floppy and net, but both failed. Floppy : when I type boot floppy, the floppy starts, but a few seconds after, the console says Bad magic number in disk label - Can't open disk

Re: Cannot install (floppy or net) on an Ultra 10

1998-04-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 23 April 1998, at 13 h 2, the keyboard of Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use etherfind (sunos) or tcpdump to monitor your network then see network packets between your computers. Well, I see the packet on the wire, but it doesn't mean the Sparc received it.