RE: Fresh install of woody on quad SS20?
It's there now, but I'm afraid it's some weird combination of woody and
potato... The install references goes to stable/main etc, which still is
potato, right?
/Cheers,
/ChJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Jönsson [mailto:christian@j-son.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:33 AM
To: 'Andrew Sharp'; 'Debian Sparc'
Subject: RE: Fresh install of woody on quad SS20?
Well, the mem=512M did the trick, it's on it's way now :-)
Thanks,
/ChJ
-----Original Message-----
From: andy@maild.telia.com [mailto:andy@maild.telia.com] On Behalf Of
Andrew Sharp
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:00 AM
To: Debian Sparc
Subject: Re: Fresh install of woody on quad SS20?
Christian Jönsson wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:06:31PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:50:44PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:38:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:35:49PM +0200, Christian J?nsson
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Just as a matter of check...
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I install Debian 3.0 (woody) on a quad cpu SPARCstation
> > > > > 20?
> > > > >
> > > > > Can I download ISOs from somewhere?
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there still a small install ISO to download and then a
> > > > > network install procedure is what has to be done?
> > > >
> > > > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.is
> > > > o
> > > >
> > > > Contains just enough to start the boot process. Everything else
> > > > is done over network to either an ftp or http Debian mirror
> > > > (install is pretty straight forward, but docs are also in the
> > > > current/docs/ directory at the above URL).
> > >
> > > hmm, first of all, the install iso says "Welcome to Debian
> > > GNU/Linux 2.2!" but that's ok with me. but, hitting enter at the
> > > boot prompt gets me this:
> > >
> > > Uncompresssing image...
> > > Loading initial ramdisk....
> > > PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
> > > Level 15 Interrupt
> > > Type help for more information
> > >
> > > Any idea of what is going on?
> > >
> > > This is on a quad Ross huperSPARC 125MHz SPARCstation 20 with 512
> > > MB RAM:
> >
> > To be honest, I was not able to test sparc32 booting from this CD.
> > Sad to hear it isn't working. On a different approach, you can read
> > the docs on how to use the tftp install.
>
> well, I haven't ruled out any other problems with this machine yet...
> it might be memory related...
I have a similar machine, except mine is 150MHz (ha-ha), but only two
processors(doh!). But it also has 512MB memory, and this has caused a
string of problems since slink, which wouldn't install at all because it
was more memory than the kernel/install stuff could dream of. So I
installed the Redhat distro of the time. Luckily for me, potato came
along soon after, I just saved my stuff, wiped it and installed potato.
Early 2.4 kernels didn't want to boot either, sometimes because of the
amount of memory; some of those worked if I spake the magical
incantation mem=512M. So every time something fails that might be
related, I first try removing half the memory to see if that changes
anything.
Good luck, and let us know what you find out. It sounds like a very
*warm* machine. ~:^)
a
PS How did they get the four processors in there? Did they put two per
daughter card or ?
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