Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Btw, how other arches (alpha, ppc, m68k, ...) are supposed to work with non
native partition formats ? Is there a need for such a scheme for them ?
Or is it just an artifact of sparc fdisk that also support i386 partitions?
I dunno. For i386 I
On Dec 14, Eric Delaunay scrawled :
Btw, how other arches (alpha, ppc, m68k, ...) are supposed to work with non
native partition formats ? Is there a need for such a scheme for them ?
Or is it just an artifact of sparc fdisk that also support i386 partitions?
alpha can work with either 386
Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
On Dec 14, Eric Delaunay scrawled :
Btw, how other arches (alpha, ppc, m68k, ...) are supposed to work with non
native partition formats ? Is there a need for such a scheme for them ?
Or is it just an artifact of sparc fdisk that also support i386 partitions?
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:43:17PM +0100, Detlev Zundel wrote:
Ah - this reminds me - the explanation of hiding the online help for
the fdisk `s' command seems completely besides the point to me. Why
shouldn't we then hide the man-page for `rm' or other potential
dangerous things?? Is the
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
Which kernel options did you select for the Sparc console fonts support ?
For the logeintries of my last mail - none really as I used
`kernel-image-2.2.13' straight out of the box. By now I have rolled
my own kernel with the following options:
In a message dated 12/13/99 4:15:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess it could be fixed in either 2 ways:
- add some obscure option to fdisk telling it to treat non Sun disklabel
the
same way as blank disk
not a bad idea
- or check for a Sun
Hmm, this thread is too repetitive. I propose to fix the installer to enfore
a
Sun disklabel on the disk.
I guess it could be fixed in either 2 ways:
- add some obscure option to fdisk telling it to treat non Sun disklabel the
same way as blank disk
- or check for a Sun disklabel before
Hi,
thanks to the quick help from this list I managed to get my IPC
working by now. Even the booting problem is resolved.
For the (improbable) case that someone else experiences similar
problems I'll give a short summary:
As I remembered seeing the IPC trying to boot from sd(0,0,0) when the
John Chapman wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Detlev Zundel wrote:
It is indeed `s' as I managed to write a Sun label by now - but it does
still not occurr in the help.
The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't
I guess it could be fixed in either 2 ways:
- add some obscure option to fdisk telling it to treat non Sun disklabel the
same way as blank disk
not a bad idea
- or check for a Sun disklabel before calling fdisk, zeroes the partition table
if not found, then call fdisk.
VERY bad idea. I
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Detlev Zundel wrote:
It is indeed `s' as I managed to write a Sun label by now - but it does
still not occurr in the help.
The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't have
known which one to use
John Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't
have
known which one to use otherwise... So, I'd like to find out why it doesn't
show on yours.
It's one of those perverse realities, I'm afraid. If your disk has
already been
Hi,
I ran this against `debian-user' but to no avail. So I'll try again
at this more specific place. Thanks for any help...
I just got hold of an old Sparc IPC that nobody used anymore and tried
to install Debian on it after swapping the defective first hard disk
with an old scsi disk lying
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Detlev Zundel wrote:
Hi,
I ran this against `debian-user' but to no avail. So I'll try again
at this more specific place. Thanks for any help...
I just got hold of an old Sparc IPC that nobody used anymore and tried
to install Debian on it after swapping the
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
You'll need to put a new disk label on the drive. The OpenBoot PROM
expects a Sun disk label. Otherwise you can't boot from it. The kernel
will still understand the i386 disk label fine, but I assume you'd like
to be able to boot it. This is
What exactly do I need to put a Sun disk label on my disk? Solaris?? I
hope not :)
You can do it with fdisk. It's in the manual:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-dbootstrap-partition
(Does dbootstrap in potato make this any more foolproof?)
Edmund
@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Detlev Zundel wrote:
It is indeed `s' as I managed to write a Sun label by now - but it does
still not occurr in the help.
The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I
wouldn't have
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