Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Buckeride
Martin wrote: For what it's worth I've been using Debian Stable (3.0 Woody) for a while now (? a couple of year ? well I started with 2.2 and migrated when 3.0 came out) on Sun machines, including those in production environments and found it rock solid. It seems to be more stable than the same

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-06 Thread Martin
> I'm far > enough along in the installation where I'm booting off the hard disk but > still haven't finished up any of the tasks that you do right after > that. Thanks for all the help... but where do I go from here? Is this > server going to be good enough for production quality environmen

Re: CMD64x IDE driver and DMA [was: Re: Installation Failing Sun V100]

2005-01-06 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear Listmembers, dear Jurij, I see the problem with knowing about what DMA mode seems acceptable, this is an issue when limiting the boot-up dma speed. What seems possible to me is a list of machines (because I think this problem mainly hurts older systems and therefore it should be fairly easy

Re: CMD64x IDE driver and DMA [was: Re: Installation Failing Sun V100]

2005-01-06 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Hi guys, this is an issue I rose around October timeframe with my U60, this is what SuSE does and this is what makes total sense (to me): start with ide=nodma as default setting, check what your system can cope with and ac

CMD64x IDE driver and DMA [was: Re: Installation Failing Sun V100]

2005-01-06 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: Hi guys, this is an issue I rose around October timeframe with my U60, this is what SuSE does and this is what makes total sense (to me): start with ide=nodma as default setting, check what your system can cope with and activate dma later. I have s

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-06 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Hi guys, this is an issue I rose around October timeframe with my U60, this is what SuSE does and this is what makes total sense (to me): start with ide=nodma as default setting, check what your system can cope with and activate dma later. I have seen severe filesystem corruption due the malconf

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi Brandon, On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-cd/images/3.0_r2/sparc/debian-30r2-sparc-binary-1.iso And what you just said doesn't make any sense. First off I'd like to state that debian is about the most disorganized distro/website/documentation me

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brandon Mercer wrote: Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, Brandon Mercer wrote: Ok, I was able to get the 3.0rc2 iso to install on my V100. Can you specify exactly were you've downloaded this image from? RC2 is the currently "released" version of the debian-installer for sarge, while 3.0 is the w

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, Brandon Mercer wrote: Ok, I was able to get the 3.0rc2 iso to install on my V100. Can you specify exactly were you've downloaded this image from? RC2 is the currently "released" version of the debian-installer for sarge, while 3.0 is the woody version (sarge is 3.

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, Brandon Mercer wrote: Ok, I was able to get the 3.0rc2 iso to install on my V100. Can you specify exactly were you've downloaded this image from? RC2 is the currently "released" version of the debian-installer for sarge, while 3.0 is the woody version (sarge is 3.1), so I am a bit confu

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
Brandon Mercer wrote: Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Brandon Mercer wrote: Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi Brandon, On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: Is there a way where I can take the current snapshot and replace the new version of SILO with an older one? I forget how those CD's boot w

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Brandon Mercer wrote: Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi Brandon, On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: Is there a way where I can take the current snapshot and replace the new version of SILO with an older one? I forget how those CD's boot with regard to where they

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi Brandon, On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: Is there a way where I can take the current snapshot and replace the new version of SILO with an older one? I forget how those CD's boot with regard to where they pull the boot information from. Whether it's off o

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-04 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi Brandon, On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: Is there a way where I can take the current snapshot and replace the new version of SILO with an older one? I forget how those CD's boot with regard to where they pull the boot information from. Whether it's off of the CD, or whether yo

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: install debian. I hit enter and see some messages about: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.4.27 Loadeing initial ramdisk (896142 bytes at 0xCF808000 phys, 0x40C0 virt)... Remappin

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: install debian. I hit enter and see some messages about: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.4.27 Loadeing initial ramdisk (896142 bytes at 0xCF808000 phys, 0x40C0 virt)... Remappin

Re: Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-03 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: install debian. I hit enter and see some messages about: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.4.27 Loadeing initial ramdisk (896142 bytes at 0xCF808000 phys, 0x40C0 virt)... Remapping the kernl... FP Disabl

Installation Failing Sun V100

2005-01-01 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello, I've got a sun V100 that I ordered straight from sun's website. I decided that I needed a nice server that would run my java web apps from so I chose to put some linux on there as it's much easier to secure than solaris. After attempting to install debian stable, testing, sarge, daily