xia01 is now Debianized for UltraLinux development!

1999-03-29 Thread Ward Deng
Debian developers, I have spent some time this weekend to update our xia01, an UltraSPARC system, to Debian 2.1 (slink). It went very smoothly. Thumbs up to all who contributed. The TFTP image is identical to the one used to install 32-bit Debian 2.1 on xia02, a SPARCstation LX. We have enough

Re: re freezing powerpc

1998-11-14 Thread Ward Deng
sparc has got a working but _very_ old installation set (to be updated) Yes I know that, but I'm waiting for fixed glibc/bash before working on new installation set. I recently bought a SCSI CD-recorder, so I will also be able to build try CD images for sparc. Eric, I am interested in

Re: Netscape SunOS emul?

1998-09-18 Thread Ward Deng
Yes. I meant SunOS 4. I copied libraries of 4.1.4 and installed netscape binaries for that. To run SunOS 4 binaries, you only need to compile with support for a.out; you don't need iBCS. For example, I use Netscape for SunOS 4.1.3 on my system. It sounds like stock debian-sparc kernel

Netscape SunOS emul?

1998-09-16 Thread Ward Deng
DO I need iBCS installed to run SunOS binary under emulation? I installed SunOS libraries according to instructions but when I started to execute SunOS binary, it simply told: cannot execute binary file This is kernel 2.0.33 with Debian SPARC/Linux on a SS1+. lsmod does not show me anything.