Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-13 Thread Giorgio Davanzo
As stated by others, there's a hole in FC support. Nevertheless: I'm flattered by Frans' offers, but unfortunately I don't have the time to personally fix the issue. My goal was to revive an E3500 machine, that's all. Debian was an option, the preferred one. We rolled back to OpenSolaris, and ev

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-13 Thread Chris Newport
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:01:52 +0200 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC) Giorgio Davanzo wrote: we're stuck with the FC disk pro

Re: Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote: > An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not > maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x > This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually > found on these machines will not work. In that case I would s

Debian Installer support for Sparc (was: Sun Enterprise 3500 - FC)

2008-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
Giorgio Davanzo wrote: > we're stuck with the FC disk problem. We've found the alleged solution > to the problem, but it's not working: > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-sparc@lists.debian.org/msg20888.html > > Someone suggested using microcode from SUN firmware (?) > > Did anyone ever solved