Re: question

[Christer Jansson <jancs@dsv.su.se>]

Richard,

thanks for your advice. Concerning the Ultra 1
problem: tested installning om an other Ultra 1,
and low and behold, no esp0: error.

I must try to figure out whats wrong with the
first one.



> > > Do you mean that you'd like to use jigdo once a newer version of the
> > > testing CD images is available, and have jigdo update your existing testing
> > > CDs to the newer, now bootable CD images?

>

>
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:57:14PM +0200, Christer Jansson wrote:
> > I have an image from stable, and it is not burned onto cd-rom. So I
> > thougt it was stright forward to loopmount this image and get some new
> > modules. But that was not possible. Maybe Solaris 7 don't have this
> > feature?
>
> I'm not sure whether upgrading images from "stable" to "testing" is still
> worth the effort - a significant number of packages has changed in testing.
>
> I'd be surprised if Solaris didn't have some equivalent of loop mounts, but
> I have little experience with it. BTW, I think if you really wanted to, you
> could use the "isoinfo" and "isodump" utilities to extract the files inside
> the image.
>
> Allowing jigdo to read the old image directly rather than requiring you to
> loop-mount it has been on my TODO list for ages, but it won't be
> implemented soon. :-/
>
> > for the installation of Debian on a Sun Ultra 1 Creative. I have not been
> > able to install because there is a:
> >
> > esp0:data bad parity detected
> >
> > effectively blocking the install procedure. I think a newer kernel maybe
> > would be a remedy?
>

> No idea - better ask on debian-sparc@lists.d.o for that.

OK. if I dont come across the reason my self.

>
> All the best,
>
>   Richard


//Christer J