Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-25 Thread John Cater
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > > Bug on upstart filed: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/436758. > Feel free to confirm the bug if you can reproduce (which based off > your comments you can). > > I can reproduce this, and I added a comment

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-23 Thread John Cater
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, John Cater wrote: > $ sudo do-release-upgrade -d > > Unfortunately, the release upgrade to karmic failed, after not being able > to find a lot of packages. I've attached the full log from > do-release-upgrade and the VM's sources.lis

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-23 Thread John Cater
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > John: on an installed system, does the latest karmic render your > machine unbootable on SPARC? > >From the solaris host (I really love zfs and ldm): $ zfs clone tank/ldom/test.gutsy@jaunty-installedtank/ldom/test.karmic.dsk $ ldm

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-23 Thread John Cater
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > I can reproduce on my Sunfire. I think SILO broke when it was migrated > to GCC 4.4. Unfortunately, this freaking antique can't netboot, which > means its a PITA to spin a new image with a different SILO to config. > > I have netboot and

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-21 Thread John Cater
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > Netboot: > http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/karmic/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/ > > I just attempted to boot the netboot image on a VM on my SunFire T1000 (with four CPUs and 1GB of memory). I get this error:

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread John Cater
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:35:58 -0400 John Cater wrote: > ... > >feisty, gutsy - I still have the netboot images but with no archive, they > >can't be installed > ... > > These archives can still be found at o

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread John Cater
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > At the moment, the best way to install is to use a Dapper or Hardy > (depending on your machine, I had to use Dapper's installer to get my > SunFire to install, but Hardy's installer should work) I just tried installing to a VM with

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread John Cater
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Michael Casadevall wrote: > SPARC has had some kernel issues recently which should be resolved as > of writing, but it is still a community-supported architecture. silo > at the moment is broken though causing d-i to FTBFS, and the > installation to bomb out, its

Re: Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread John Cater
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Matt Darcy wrote: > I trust you're not using a Cool thread cpu in that T1000 box > > I am, why? The base server is the Coolthread 32-core CPU, running OpenSolaris. I have several VMs running Intrepid currently, and wanted to check how well Karmic will run in a V

Karmic for Sparc

2009-09-11 Thread John Cater
I was going to try and install Karmic on my SunFire T1000 box, however I cannot find the sparc installer for Karmic (specifically, I need the netboot install image). Is there a problem with the sparc installer currently, or has support for sparc been dropped even from ports.ubuntu.com? Thanks, kat