Re: [hardware-donations] Sun E4500 and netra t4

2007-06-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-06-11 21:47:18, schrieb Josip Rodin: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:36:07AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: I'm willing to pick them up, Carlsbad is about 100 miles from where I live. It would be good to add them to our pile of hardware to test installs on if nothing else. They are

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun E4500 and netra t4

2007-06-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:36:07AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: I'm willing to pick them up, Carlsbad is about 100 miles from where I live. It would be good to add them to our pile of hardware to test installs on if nothing else. They are newer and faster than any of my sparc systems. I'm

[hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA

2007-06-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Is anyone interested in the following machines for Debian related work? The machines are currently located in Carlsbad, CA, near Lego Land. We recently freed up some old Sun hardware that we're willing to donate for the cost of shipping. Available are: - Sun Enterprise 4500 - Sun Netra T4

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA

2007-06-04 Thread Josip Rodin
for the cost of shipping. Available are: - Sun Enterprise 4500 - Sun Netra T4 An E4500 is more or less a shipping nightmare. Do they have its rack mount kit? Which CPUs are in it, and how many of them? Another person in England recently told me about a similar possible donation, and they also have

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun E4500 and netra t4

2007-06-04 Thread Blars Blarson
Is anyone interested in the following machines for Debian related work? The machines are currently located in Carlsbad, CA, near Lego Land. We recently freed up some old Sun hardware that we're willing to donate for the cost of shipping. Available are: - Sun Enterprise 4500 - Sun Netra T4

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA

2007-06-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
it... ... A Netra T4 is a 4U server which should be pretty modern, and likely worth having. What are the specifications for that one? I'm not sure, but I'll put you in contact with the donor privately so you can check. If it's sufficiently modern and beefed up, it might be worth shipping

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA

2007-06-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:12:28PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: but it shouldn't be too hard to find hosting in California. Maybe you want to check whether this box would be useful and whether someone can host it? We don't have any sort of a database of hosting offers, do we? I

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA

2007-06-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-04 23:03]: but it shouldn't be too hard to find hosting in California. Maybe you want to check whether this box would be useful and whether someone can host it? We don't have any sort of a database of hosting offers, do we? I don't think so. --

Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA

2007-06-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: What are the specifications for that one? I'm not sure, but I'll put you in contact with the donor privately so you can check. Thanks. If it's sufficiently modern and beefed up, it might be worth shipping it to a place

Re: netra t4

2004-04-13 Thread VEGH Karoly
for bringing it back to my attention, I'll add it to all of my trees right now. hi all, waking up this thread again. Are any debian installer images available with the patch mentioned above? tried with actual sarge and woody images, without success on this netra t4. tia charlie -- VĂ©gh

Re: netra t4

2003-12-19 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:15:02PM -0800, Eric Brower wrote: You may wish to speak with Johan Verrept-- he built a kernel for use on his Netra T4. well, I tried to reach him but he's busy or maybe my mails go under in the daily mail-noise... all-in-all: I still cannot boot, are there any docs

Re: netra t4

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Brower
Take a look at the Linux on the Sun JavaStation howto-- that describes the process in detail. E VEGH Karoly wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:15:02PM -0800, Eric Brower wrote: You may wish to speak with Johan Verrept-- he built a kernel for use on his Netra T4. well, I tried to reach him

Re: netra t4

2003-12-15 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:22:14PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:56:57 -0800 Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html I overlooked this patch, it was not that I had rejected it. Eric, thanks

Re: netra t4

2003-12-11 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:19:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Booting Linux... sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok Boot with linux -p (or boot net linux -p for netboot). See if we can see some more info. ok boot net linux -p Boot device: /[EMAIL

Re: netra t4

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Collins
This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. What images are you using? from ftp.debian.org: Try the images here: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/ -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 -

Re: netra t4

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Brower
Johan Verrept sent a patch to this list and DaveM on 26.Jan.2003 for proper booting on the T4, but it apparently never made it into the kernel sources (as per bkbits). It does not specifically address the SAB issue, but does address the fill_ebus_child issue.

Re: netra t4

2003-12-11 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:56:57 -0800 Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html I overlooked this patch, it was not that I had rejected it. Eric, thanks for bringing it back to my attention, I'll add it to all of my trees

netra t4

2003-12-10 Thread VEGH Karoly
Hi all, I am trying to set up a Sun Netra T4, but at both install/boot methods (cdrom and net) I get the following: Booting Linux... sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok Since this box has no VGA card, I tried to start the install from the serialconsole from

Re: netra t4

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
Booting Linux... sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok Boot with linux -p (or boot net linux -p for netboot). See if we can see some more info. This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. What images are you using? Note the