Re: Bug#118669: boot-floppies: potato/woody/sid install fail to start on SparcStation2/10

2001-11-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the 2, it gets to SILO. When you press enter to start the install, it proceeds to uncompress the kernel. It then fails with something like IDPROM: failed reading format. The 10 claims that it cannot find a sun boot label or something like

Re: Bug#118669: boot-floppies: potato/woody/sid install fail to start on SparcStation2/10

2001-11-09 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, I moved a floppy drive from the SS2 to the SS10 and the SS10 booted. The SS2 does not boot with the same disk drive. Warren On Friday 09 November 2001 10:11 am, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the 2, it gets

potato-woody

2001-08-23 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
Hello, I was running woody for about four weeks on an ultra10 till I messed upped the system. So I had to install woody again. The new installation ended in a horror story: I am installing for three days now. Installing woody directly does not work. So I installed potato then edit

Half-baked potato/woody Xsun

2001-04-04 Thread zbir
Hey, all. 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 loop? apt-get upgrade

Re: Half-baked potato/woody Xsun

2001-04-04 Thread zbir
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 loop? AFAIK, there's no such thing as Xsun 4.0.2. The new server is xserver-xfree86 and installing it

Re: Half-baked potato/woody Xsun

2001-03-21 Thread zbir
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 loop? AFAIK, there's no such thing as Xsun 4.0.2. The new server is xserver-xfree86 and installing it

Half-baked potato/woody Xsun

2001-03-20 Thread zbir
Hey, all. 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 loop? apt-get upgrade

Re: Half-baked potato/woody Xsun

2001-03-20 Thread Ragga Muffin
[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

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-19 Thread Q89029292
hopes with 2.4.x. Guess I'll wait for now. The potato-woody dist-upgrade went mostly fine. Apart from setting up XF4 it was a breeze. (kudos to all!) However, at boot I now get these messages (2.2.19pre16): Adding Swap: 65396k swap-space (priority -1) cp[171]: Unimplemented SPARC

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-14 Thread Thorsten Kukuk
On Wed, Mar 14, Ragga Muffin wrote: 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

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ben Collins wrote: Ok, let me rephrase, I doubt it will work on ultrasparc :) Nice to see it has made some progress since the last time I checked into it where I was told it wasn't going to happen in the forseeable future. Just for the sake of interest: How far depends

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:20:19AM +0100, Andreas Tille was blubbering: Just for the sake of interest: How far depends filesystem code from the processor architecture? - Endianness - 32bit/64bit ... (and counting ;) These would be the most prominent, I guess. Peter -- Any good Unix

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-13 Thread Ragga Muffin
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

Abstraction (Was: Re: Potato-Woody)

2001-03-13 Thread Onno Benschop
Ok, ok, I'll bite. In order to further my understanding of my place in the world (that is, ask silly questions, see what happens), I feel the need to ask this (from blissful ignorance, so be gentle). Let us imagine an operating system that is built from a whole lot of different modules that

Re: Abstraction (Was: Re: Potato-Woody)

2001-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:00:20AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote: So, then someone asks, how come reiserfs doesn't work on sparc. I wonder what am I missing? This is what's known as bad, non-portable coding. You see, on different architectures, things are, well, different. We have big and

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-12 Thread Ragga Muffin
caveats with reiserfs ? Yeah, it does not work on sparc (only works on i386, and maybe alpha by now). Well, reiserfs, iptables and a better vm/mm were my hopes with 2.4.x. Guess I'll wait for now. The potato-woody dist-upgrade went mostly fine. Apart from setting up XF4 it was a breeze. (kudos

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Collins
). The potato-woody dist-upgrade went mostly fine. Apart from setting up XF4 it was a breeze. (kudos to all!) Excellent! However, at boot I now get these messages (2.2.19pre16): Adding Swap: 65396k swap-space (priority -1) cp[171]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 chown[206]: Unimplemented

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-12 Thread Thorsten Kukuk
On Mon, Mar 12, Ben Collins wrote: - Any caveats with reiserfs ? Yeah, it does not work on sparc (only works on i386, and maybe alpha by now). Well, reiserfs, iptables and a better vm/mm were my hopes with 2.4.x. Guess I'll wait for now. I doubt we'll ever see reiser on sparc

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:36:31PM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, Ben Collins wrote: - Any caveats with reiserfs ? Yeah, it does not work on sparc (only works on i386, and maybe alpha by now). Well, reiserfs, iptables and a better vm/mm were my hopes with

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:38:25PM +0900, Ragga Muffin was blubbering: 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 ? Nonworking on my SS10. Doesn't go over booting Linux - Any

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:38:25PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote: 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 ? A few, but you don't need kernel 2.4.x to run woody. - Any caveats with reiserfs ?

Potato-Woody

2001-03-08 Thread Ragga Muffin
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

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-08 Thread Dave Love
BM == Brian Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM I'm thinking it's a libc issue too. Which if you don't want to downgrade you BM can add: BM ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 BM #right before the ifup -a call in /etc/init.d/networking BM #Add any other static routes before there. ifconfig didn't run at

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-08 Thread Brian Macy
Quoting Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BM == Brian Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM I'm thinking it's a libc issue too. Which if you don't want to downgrade you BM can add: BM ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 BM #right before the ifup -a call in /etc/init.d/networking BM #Add any other static

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Macy
This happens with 2.2.18. Doing an strace gives you the pasted dump. SYS_63() and nfssvc() seem to be the unimplemented system calls. Via dmesg I get Unimplemented system calls in init (call 155) and rcS (calls 44,154, and 155). This is on my SMP Sparc10 (2 ROSS 90s). I'd try it with 2.4.0 but

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-07 Thread Dave Love
ED == Evan DiBiase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ED Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: Function not ED implemented ED ifup: couldn't read interfaces file /etc/network/interfaces Downgrading to libc6 2.2-4 fixed this for me on an Ultra -- see previous messages. However, the

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Macy
Quoting Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ED == Evan DiBiase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ED Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: Function not ED implemented ED ifup: couldn't read interfaces file /etc/network/interfaces Downgrading to libc6 2.2-4 fixed this for me on an

SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-06 Thread Evan DiBiase
Hey, I recently upgraded my SPARCstation2 from Debian potato to woody, which seemed to work fine... until the power went out and it came time to boot the system anew. Now, the system won't boot normally, and I have to boot in linux single mode (that is, typing linux single at the SILO prompt).

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-06 Thread Olivier Bornet
Hello all, Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: Function not implemented ifup: couldn't read interfaces file /etc/network/interfaces This happens with basically anything in /etc/network/interfaces: this error was generated with a completely commented-out file, but the

Re: SPARC potato - woody

2001-01-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:34:18PM -0500, Evan DiBiase wrote: Hey, I recently upgraded my SPARCstation2 from Debian potato to woody, which seemed to work fine... until the power went out and it came time to boot the system anew. Now, the system won't boot normally, and I have to boot in

[WARNING] modutils in potato/woody broken, fixed packages available

2000-04-28 Thread Ben Collins
Here is a fixed package for anyone that got bit by the current version: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/modutils_2.3.11-1.0.1_sparc.deb Sorry for the inconvience, Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic