RE: Sparcy gets a brother
Well. The IPC has this great little slit on the front of it which some
people like to stick disks in. I have found, you can attatch a Vacume
Cleaner Hose to it, and it goes great sucking the crap off my floor.
The bottumn line is, the IPC is sealed up so well, it's main intake is the
damn floppy drive. All sorts of dust and crap gets in and shits everything.
I had trouble with boot disks, and flagged it streight away, and found TFTP
from my Slak 3.3 box was easy. The insructions DONT mention the ARP step
only the RARP step, Both must be done, otherwise it wont boot. If you
follow the instructions to the letter, other than that, it works VERY well.
>From there, I tried to make a floppy, and boot from it, just to test the
drive.
Sure enuf, the drive is stuffed. This is the case on 3 out of 4 SparcIPC's
I have. So... my advise is... get some compressed Oxygen Free Nitrogen, and
blast the sucker, then run a cleaning disk thru it. On all three of the
faulty systems, the drives are now all working perfectly.
I highly recommend obtaining a tranceiver and some 10Base2 or 10BaseT
cable, and Net Booting. These systems are designed for it... and are
reliable.
It's simple... you you can't TFTP to a SunIPC, you are doing it wrong, or
it's hardware failure. 98% of the time it's user error.
RTFM Everyone, and it will all work out. My systems are Proof of that.
If anyone out there is having problems NetBooting or setting up a SunIPC
feel free to E-Mail me or catch me on the IRC ( irc.debian.org
#debian )
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen J. Carpenter [SMTP:sjc@delphi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 2:57 AM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Sparcy gets a brother
ok...
At he MIT Flea Market I puyrchased another Sun Station this month.
I got me an IPC this time. It seems faster but...
I still can't get Linux on it :(
I came in to see a guy I know with some SUN stations at work
yesterday, nd we made up boot floppies...
My machines refuse to boot (both my IPC and the Sparc 1)
I put my hard drive in HIS sparc 1 (same model as mine) and
type boot floppy...(both my machines refuse to do this)
I see a SILO prompt but...it wont boot. It complains about
a missing lilo.conf and not being able to read block 6.
I am going to try the tftpboot.img when I can...but boot floppies would
be much more convinent.
I am wondering if maybe I need new floppy drives? I try on my sparc 1
boot fd() (BTW its ROM version is like 1.0)
that gives me an error...in fact test-floppy also fails but eject works
fine
sigh...im going to try some more things when I get a chance...im
just sorta wondering if the boot floppy imigas are screwed?
-Steve
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