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Re: another 2.2.6 report (sparc)



Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:46:48AM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> > 
> > Package: boot-floppies
> > Version: 2.2.6
> > Date: 2000-02-04
> > Architecture: sparc
> > Configuration: SparcClassic, 24MB RAM, 1GB HD, CG3 display.
> > 
> > Hello Ben & all other ones who work on boot-floopies,
> > I'm sorry I have nearly no time to work on boot-floppies at the moment (to much
> > work at my office).  But I have had some hours to spend on yesterday though.
> > Here is my little work...
> > 
> >   I tried to install the latest 2.2.6 snapshot for sparc and did some
> > compile/trial from 2000-02-11 CVS snapshot.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time. I really could use an experienced tester with
> this (even a little help :)

I will work on as much as can do.

> I already switched the sun4cdm images to using the 8x16 font.

Good.  Thanks.

> >   c. cannot go further after kernel & modules installed
> > 
> >   => due to subarchive modconf.tgz in sun4cdm/drivers.tgz that is missing
> >      important files like usr/share/modconf...
> >      Worked after I replaced it with my own built.
> 
> Not sure what the problem is here. I didn't have any problems with the
> sun4u stuff. I'll take a look at it later.

Are you sure?  my 2.2.6 download from marcus shows same problem on sun4u.
# tar xOzf sun4u/drivers.tgz ./modconf.tgz | tar tvzf -
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     25956 1999-12-26 13:54 usr/bin/whiptail
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      2692 2000-01-27 19:53 sbin/update-modules
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-01-27 19:54 etc/modutils/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       432 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/0keep
-rw-r--r-- root/root       719 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/aliases
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       623 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/m68k.amiga
-rw-r--r-- root/root        35 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/i386
-rw-r--r-- root/root       624 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/m68k.atari
-rw-r--r-- root/root       277 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/m68k.mac
-rw-r--r-- root/root       251 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/m68k.generic
-rw-r--r-- root/root        35 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/arch/alpha
-rw-r--r-- root/root       260 2000-01-27 19:53 etc/modutils/paths
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     13865 2000-01-26 04:23 usr/sbin/modconf

No usr/share/modconf...

Might be a problem in modconf.  Last time it was uploaded was Feb, 7th.  After
your build.

Regards.

-- 
 Eric Delaunay                 | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y
 delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | a pas de problème.   Devise Shadok.


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