First of all, I am not very experienced and use the i686 architecture,
but what I did might help:
I've put a variety of partitions on the 2 disks I use for the purpose
of dual booting. One holds the filesystems etc. for the other OS,
intended for legacy applications that I still use... may use.
Thanks for sharing your experience with i686. I have now found out that SILO
(the boot loader for SPARC architecture) requires the first partition of the
hard disk not to start at 0 (cylinder I guess) but with the installation of
Debian I have no way of making the first partition start at
I was happy to have a MEPIS Live CD around with ext4 support. I've
used it to move data about and pre-partition/pre-format the
partitions, except for the ones used for sRAID.
I don't know if MEPIS supports the architecture you're using, but
maybe Knoppix would be more suitable. Knoppix has it's
Well what I now did is to create a dummy unused partition of 100 MB at the
beginning of my hard disk and then create a root and a swap partition which
both are in a RAID 1 set. For that I followed these
instructions: http://www.unix.com/linux/141253-sparc-linux-raid1-silo.html
Unfortunately,
This is starting to enter an area where I can't say too much with full
certainty. Below I'll give a few hints that may or may not work. After
that, I'll probably withdraw, as I won't have much more useful info to
add right right now.
In addition, using the capitaI i for normaI L, as this stupid
Hello,
I have a Sun Netra X1 with two identical 80 GB IDE hard-disks and would like to
install Debian 6.0 squeeze (sparc) using RAID 1.
Now I tried various methods but all somehow failed for example by failing to
install silo at the end... Also my problem is that I can't set the physical
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