sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I've added some SPARC info on the hardware requirements and capabilities of the sparc boot-floppies to the Installation Manual. I don't have a sparc so I'm working blind off the kernel-image-2.0.35-2 for sparc, the S/Linux FAQ, and even the S/Linux 2.0.35 kernel patch diffs. If someone knowledgab

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-03 Thread Steve Dunham
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've added some SPARC info on the hardware requirements and > capabilities of the sparc boot-floppies to the Installation Manual. > I don't have a sparc so I'm working blind off the > kernel-image-2.0.35-2 for sparc, the S/Linux FAQ, and even the S/Linux

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On 02 Feb 1999 19:34:37 -0500, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > : Debian 2.1 supports four architectures: Intel x86-based > architectures; : Motorola 680x0 machines such as Atari, Amiga, and > Macintoshes; DEC : Alpha machines, and SPARC machines. These are > referred to as i386, : m68k, a

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-03 Thread Steve Dunham
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 02 Feb 1999 19:34:37 -0500, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > : Debian 2.1 supports four architectures: Intel x86-based architectures; > > : Motorola 680x0 machines such as Atari, Amiga, and Macintoshes; DEC > > : Alpha machines, and SPARC

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On 03 Feb 1999 13:07:42 -0500, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There will not be a sparc64 release of Debian for a long time _but_ > the "sparc" Debian runs just fine on an Ultra as long as you're > using a 64-bit kernel. The sparc64 kernel does sparc "emulation" - > essentially, it can r

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 03 Feb 1999 13:07:42 -0500, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > There will not be a sparc64 release of Debian for a long time _but_ > > the "sparc" Debian runs just fine on an Ultra as long as you're > > using a 64-bit kernel. The sparc64 kern

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-05 Thread Eric Delaunay
Steve Dunham wrote: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 03 Feb 1999 13:07:42 -0500, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > There will not be a sparc64 release of Debian for a long time _but_ > > > the "sparc" Debian runs just fine on an Ultra as long as you're > > > using a

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-05 Thread Eric Delaunay
Steve Dunham wrote: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eric, I've come up with the rules file magic to generate both sparc32 > and sparc64 kernels from the same source package. (It generates > kernel-image-2.2.x-sparc64_*, then generates a complete set of > packages for the sparc32 a

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Jakub - I'm CCing you to get an answer to a question about tilo near the end of this message. Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Dunham wrote: > > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Eric, I've come up with the rules file magic to generate both sparc32 > > and sparc

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-07 Thread Eric Delaunay
Steve Dunham wrote: > > Jakub - I'm CCing you to get an answer to a question about tilo near > the end of this message. > > Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > [2] limit your kernel size to no greater than 1.5MB uncompressed. > > I was not able to load an initial ramdisk usi

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-08 Thread Jakub Jelinek
> > Steve Dunham wrote: > > > > Jakub - I'm CCing you to get an answer to a question about tilo near > > the end of this message. > > > > Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > [2] limit your kernel size to no greater than 1.5MB uncompressed. > > > I was not able to load a

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-03-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Steve" == Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Eric, I've come up with the rules file magic to generate both Steve> sparc32 and sparc64 kernels from the same source package. (It Steve> generates kernel-image-2.2.x-sparc64_*, then generates a Steve> complete set of packages for th

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-03-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Steve" == Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve> Eric, I've come up with the rules file magic to generate both > Steve> sparc32 and sparc64 kernels from the same source package. (It > Steve> generates kernel-image-2.2.x-sparc64_*, then

Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-03-07 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Steve" == Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> The sources in kernel-source-2.2.1 are kinda useless. To get Steve> the kernel to compile from the "kpkg" package, You mean 'to compile with the "kernel-package" stuff, ', right? Steve> you have to run Steve> something along the li