Re: New set of sparc boot disks
> --Large Font Looks Great ,but pages loaded like an old 150-300 baud
> modem. Plus when moving down menus the text overlaps, the margins tear
> and jump from Left, Right and Back to center all at the same time.
Odd, what framebuffer is this?
> --At Install Kernel and Modules it asks for the Rescue Disk, I assumed
> sun4c since that was the disk I started with but received "Message sun4c
> Rescue not correct". Wanted sun4cdm rescue disk. Instructions not
> specific enough.
This is specific in the README.
> --message /target/sun4cdm/drivers.tgz no such file or directory. Used
> vt2 and created required directory and install continued.
Others have reported the same problem, I'll have this fixed on the next
run.
> --could not escape, used STOP-A to get out of setup.
Also a know problem, looking into this aswell
> --Task Installer V0.1 was just a blank screen- no options listed; with
> enter was put in dselect program.
This is because it downloads "stable" package listings, which do not
contain any of the task- metapackages. I'm not sure how to get around
this right now since potato is currently "frozen". You could probably
modify etc/apt/sources.list in base2_2.tgz manually.
> --Still could not mount floppy; mount fd0 gives "can't find etc/fstab
> or /etc/mtap" Same two devices as mentioned above mounted.
use the -n option for mount, see how that works.
Thanks for the comments.
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