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.iso
> > > >
> > > > 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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