RE: Another PA8600 User Online
Hi there,
Here is a brief summary of installer issues forwarded as suggested! Please
could you advise me of
anything you think might help me please, because i am fed up with using Gentoo
;)
Chrs!
Martyn
>===== Original Message From The PA/Linux ESIEE Team <puffin@esiee.fr> =====
>Hi,
>
>I'm a bit swamped nowadays, but here are two things I can suggest:
>1) if IDE is broken, you can try to netboot the machine and install from
>network (if that's a possible solution for you)
>2) in any case, it'd be much appreciated that you report the debian
>installer issues to debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
>
>Hope that helps
>
>
>Thibaut VARENE
>The PA/Linux Team
>http://www.pateam.org/
>
>
>On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 02:13:04 +0100
>"Martyn S. Braithwaite" <M.S.Braithwaite@exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am emailing you to say that I have also had success installing "kernel
>
>> 2.4.26-pa6" on my j6000 smp
>> under rival distro Gentoo. Thing is that I really prefer Debian, but
>it's damn
>> near impossible to install
>> your distro on a j6000. The thing is any kernel below 2.4.26 doesn't
>have USB
>> support (no keyboard),
>> and kernels of 2.6 or above don't have CDROM support due to what seems
>like
>> linus's atapi-kernel
>> modules rethink! Truth is out of all the parisc kernels i have tried
>2.4.26 is
>> the only one that works
>> fully.
>>
>> I've tried looking in your ISO install file for the kernel binary but i
>can't
>> find it anywhere so i can't
>> transplant the exact kernel that i need. And it's pretty tricky for me
>to
>> compile a kernel atm because i
>> am stuck with a g/fs lappy runnign os x as desktop machine. I don't see
>how
>> necessary it should be to
>> compile from source such a uniform CPU archecture anyway.
>>
>> Is there any chance you could upload or advise me where i can obtain a
>debian
>> install iso image (or the
>> files to make one) so i would have a debian iso image of binary kernel
>2.4.26*
>> so we j6000 users will be
>> happy? Even just a binary image of a kernel 2.4.26 (not source) and a
>script
>> to patch over a loop'd
>> mounted cdrom iso of a debian install cdrom would be great!
>>
>> Keep up the good work!
>>
>> Martyn
>> (freelance neural network development)
>>
>> PS Although i didn't manage to get debian working on j6000, i did manage
>to
>> get it working on my old
>> HP Visualise C200, and it worked fine before the PSU failed (R19
>problem.
>> apparently quite common in
>> those machines).
>>
>>
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