Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-27 Thread Kieron Gillespie
It's a completely fresh install on formatted disks. Just to double check I was able to reinstall the previous install build (2016-11-5) so there is some sort of regression here. Yeah I was trying to determine why it was throwing that error at line 607 but it appears to just be a closing fi statemen

Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-27 Thread James Clarke
> On 27 Nov 2016, at 18:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hi Kieron! > >> On 11/27/2016 04:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: >> Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: sh: apt_dest: unknown operand >> Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: line 607: : Permission >> denied > > This loo

Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Kieron! On 11/27/2016 04:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: > Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: sh: apt_dest: unknown operand > Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: line 607: : Permission > denied This look like a general issue in debian-installer, i.e. not specific to sparc64. Lookin

Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-27 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hi, Same problem here. I was able to use debootstrap manually through the shell, though ... Kind Regards, -Kevin On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie < ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I just gave this a shot on my SunBlade 2500 and ran into a small issue > when the instal

Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-27 Thread Kieron Gillespie
So I just gave this a shot on my SunBlade 2500 and ran into a small issue when the installer gets to the point for Installing the base system. "The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 127)." With in my syslog I see the following, Nov 27 14:59:43 cdrom-detect: Detected CD with 'u

Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-23 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hi Adrian, Thank you for doing this! I have tested the installation image, and encountered a problem with installation on iscsi devices. Just tells me it can't find any targets. Nothing in the installer logs. Are the necessary packages for iscsi included in the installation image? If so, i gues

New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! After a half year break, I have finally created new installer images for Debian sparc64. These are currently being uploaded to my Debian webspace and should be completely uploaded within the next minutes, see [1]. A quick and rough installation guide can be found in [2], please let us know if

DEBIAN 6.0 Squeeze (SPARC) - Installation - Partitioning - LVM - RAID

2011-04-04 Thread Teletreff
Hello debian sparc list subscribers, i have some Problems in Installation - Partitioning with LVM - RAID the new DEBIAN 6.0 Squeeze (SPARC). 1) Booting not possible after installation with the netinstall cd 2) No automated installation with RAID (and LVM) possible I did RTFM :-) Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Proposal to document sparc installation issues

2005-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 14:07, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 21:19, Frans Pop wrote: > > The first issue is with USB keyboards by Sun as used on > > for example SunBlade systems. These are incorrectly "recognized" by > > the installer as regular Sun keyboards. A workaro

Re: Proposal to document sparc installation issues

2005-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 23:02, Geert Stappers wrote: > Even beyond d-i a kernel upgrade breaks keyboard setup. Right, but is also not limited to Sparc. That is why I also sent [1]. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/03/msg00357.html pgp1JrEiVUncR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal to document sparc installation issues

2005-03-29 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:53:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 22:45, Geert Stappers wrote: | | [ kernel upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 causes broken keyboard setup ] > > > >Login by ssh or serial line to cover keyboard. Login by ssh or serial line to recover k

sun4m sparc installation problem

2004-03-21 Thread Andy Pazos
hi every. thanks in advantage for helping me trying to install debian sparc. im installing on a diskless sun4m 8mb. everything goes ok but when installation seems to be finnishing, the following message apperared: running '/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies --arch sparc woody /target null:' Fai

Sparc installation

2003-02-17 Thread kfredenb
Hi, I ha a Debian 3 NONUS Sparc64 cd with which I'm trying to install a Ultra 5/10 (sun4u) machine. When I boot from the cd SILO works fine but when I at the boot: prompt press enter I get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd and noticed that there is no sparc64.g

RE : help on Debian 3.0 SPARC installation

2002-09-25 Thread Olivier Hochreutiner
Hi, > Therefore, during the first installation kernel loading, beyond the "NET4 > : Unix Domain Sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0" message, the kernel gives > another message and irretrievably stops : > "Kernel Panic : I have no root and I want to scream. Press STOP-A to > return to the boot prom"

help on Debian 3.0 SPARC installation

2002-09-25 Thread Sébastien Chavin
Hello, I'd like to install the Debian 3.0 (Woody) SPARC distribution on an UltraSPARC architecture (Sun4u) instead of existing Solaris. The engine model is SUN Blade, and the Debian installation becomes well when booting on bought CDROM under /BOOT/sparc64 file. Therefore, during the first instal

Re: Of sparc installation by floppies

2002-08-24 Thread Ben Collins
> 3) I saw some 'cannot create /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe: directory > nonexistent' messages during the install - but fortunatly I didn't need > any modules. Wouldn't matter if you did. This just disabled kmod, which is not enabled anyway on sparc. > serial issues > - > When installing

Of sparc installation by floppies

2002-08-24 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Hi, I've just installed woody on my Ultra1 - it is a headless machine and thus I did the install over serial; here are a few comments that I hope are useful (I considered submitting these to boot-floppies bugs - but the list of unresolved bugs is several times the size of the resolved list, with

Re: sparc installation

2000-02-02 Thread ferret
Ooookay. I get home from work today, poke at NFS, and it lets me mount my exports. I changed nothing from this morning, when it wasn't working at all. /etc/hosts in the server only lists localhost and the server's IP and hostname. The client lists localhost, the client, and the server. I guess i

Re: sparc installation

2000-02-02 Thread ferret
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Anton Ivanov wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > [snip] > > > > > Looks like it. OH. Different problem, but it might have some bearing. I > > just switched my network from /etc/hosts to DNS zone, and now none of my > > clients have permission to mount my NFS ex

Re: sparc installation

2000-02-01 Thread Anton Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [snip] > > Looks like it. OH. Different problem, but it might have some bearing. I > just switched my network from /etc/hosts to DNS zone, and now none of my > clients have permission to mount my NFS exports. Have you removed the old /etc/hosts entries? If th

Re: sparc installation

2000-02-01 Thread ferret
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Eric Delaunay wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:01:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Still no go.. > > > > > > ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50 > > > > > > even specifying ALL the options to

Re: sparc installation

2000-02-01 Thread Eric Delaunay
Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:01:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Still no go.. > > > > ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50 > > > > even specifying ALL the options to ip= and adding root=/dev/nfs to the > > boot paramaters. > >

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:01:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Still no go.. > > ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50 > > even specifying ALL the options to ip= and adding root=/dev/nfs to the > boot paramaters. > > What else can I try? That's pret

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-31 Thread ferret
Still no go.. ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50 even specifying ALL the options to ip= and adding root=/dev/nfs to the boot paramaters. What else can I try? On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:33:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROT

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:33:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe I got the boot args wrong. I was going by the diskless HOWTO, and I > had it working at one point in time. > > RARP on boot server points to the uncompressed a.out kernel image > (compiled elf2aout on i386) and the kerne

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-31 Thread ferret
Maybe I got the boot args wrong. I was going by the diskless HOWTO, and I had it working at one point in time. RARP on boot server points to the uncompressed a.out kernel image (compiled elf2aout on i386) and the kernels do boot to the point where they can't mount root FS on 00.00 ok boot net nf

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 06:42:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ben, > > Do the 2.2.14 Sparc kernel images have root on NFS/IP PnP support? Yes, but the PnP RARP is disabled on all of them. It's just as simple to type it in once on the command line for install, and recompile for those few

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-30 Thread ferret
Ben, Do the 2.2.14 Sparc kernel images have root on NFS/IP PnP support? On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 06:58:53PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote: [snip of installing Slink first] > A) You can always upgrade the kernel first. I just uploaded 2.2.14 images >yest

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 06:58:53PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote: > > Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >in the worst case, i will install slink and then try to update. > > This works very well, with one caveat. Slink comes with kernel 2.2.1 > and you won't be able to upgrade to pot

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-29 Thread Ragga Muffin
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >in the worst case, i will install slink and then try to update. This works very well, with one caveat. Slink comes with kernel 2.2.1 and you won't be able to upgrade to potato (the installer complains that you need at least kernel 2.2.7) What I did

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-29 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> There is an install manual on Debian's web site. I knew quite well Solaris > 2 but nothing about Debian and with that document it was pretty easy to > have my Sun box up and running with "slink". The only thing I couldn't make > is a boot floppy. As described in that install file, it is the ma

Re: sparc installation

2000-01-28 Thread Georges A. Tomazi
Hi Andreas, At 21:34 27/01/00 +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: hi. i purchased 6 hyndai sparc II dobtec machines for several debian developers and me, and will try to install debian (once i got an aui <-> 10baseT connector). my source for instructions ? creating sparc cd´s failed: no content

sparc installation

2000-01-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hi. i purchased 6 hyndai sparc II dobtec machines for several debian developers and me, and will try to install debian (once i got an aui <-> 10baseT connector). my source for instructions ? creating sparc cd´s failed: no content dir in disks-sparc. i hope to find some time to contribute to debia

Re: Stall on debian sparc installation with version 2.0.35

1999-03-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still looking for a response anyone? please? > > One addition, can anyone let me know the ftp full path to the > version of Debian linux for SPARC that I should be attempting to use > here? I don't mind trouble shooting and/or debugging on behalf of > the

Re: Stall on debian sparc installation with version 2.0.35

1999-03-05 Thread Eric Delaunay
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > The 2.2.1 image is > > available from Eric D's site > > (ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc), and I > > believe that the current 2.0.35 can be found there as well (in "current"). > > When I last looked, "current" was pointing at an o

re: Stall on debian sparc installation with version 2.0.35

1999-03-04 Thread John Chapman
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Lance wrote: > Still looking for a response anyone? please? Sorry if you haven't heard from anyone; I guess that few of us are so fortunate as to have a machine with four processors to test :-) Here's something I've noticed: When I boot the 2.0.35 kernel with a serial

re: Stall on debian sparc installation with version 2.0.35

1999-03-04 Thread Lance
Still looking for a response anyone? please? One addition, can anyone let me know the ftp full path to the version of Debian linux for SPARC that I should be attempting to use here? I don't mind trouble shooting and/or debugging on behalf of the group. Greetings Debian Group, Well... I wa

Re: Stall on debian sparc installation with version 2.0.35

1999-02-20 Thread Eric Delaunay
Lance wrote: > Greetings Debian Group, > [...] > and 4 CY605c processors. I am also installing through the serial ttya > console port as this machine has > no keyboard nor video adapter. > > The command line I entered at the ok prompt was: > > "boot net console=ttya" > > [...] > > sdb: sdb

Stall on debian sparc installation with version 2.0.35

1999-02-20 Thread Lance
Greetings Debian Group, Well... I was really feeling pretty good about myself here until this install process put me back in my place again. Shsh. I decided to can the RedHat 5.2 installation for the time being and opt for your Debian Sparc release. I downloaded via ftp dated 12-08-99 ver