Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's? -- final outcome
Hi all,
To those who have been following, the story has a happy
sort of, ending. It turns out that the SS20 that I was
trying to resurrect had a bad ram stick in it. A friend of
mine met me at a Linux user group meeting in Dallas
Saturday and he had several versions of SUSE that were
known good. When He tried to install 7.3 he got some
really weird error messages early in the install. He said
that it only needed 64M of ram to install and the machine
had 128M in it. I remembered getting one of the sticks
from a "flea market" guy so I pulled two of them out
and the install went fine after that. I have several other
SS20's that I can now "debug" using the one good one
buy doing a parts swap and getting rid of the hardware
that doesn't work. By the way, the bad ram stick
passed the diag at the command prompt (OK) level.
thanks all,
charles....
----- Original Message -----
From: "***** charles" <shultzjrJUNK@academicplanet.com>
To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: (forw) Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?
> To Joshua - yes I am subscribed, so got it.
> don't know how to use the .bz2 file
> but I did get it.
>
> To all others - thanks for the posts, I will try
> to do the first cd correctly this time.
>
> I have a friend who has a cable modem. He
> can download a whole cd (about 650M) in
> less than an hour. I did get the ISO's but for
> some reason the cd's that I made, especially
> the first one of the Debian/SPARC group
> will not boot. I think I created it incorrectly.
> Next time I will try Nero on a PC to see if
> I can get the ISO's to burn correctly so the
> cd is bootable. The files did pass the MD5
> sum checks so I know the downloads were
> ok and not corrupted.
>
> thanks again to all,
> charles.....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Uziel" <uzi@uzix.org>
> To: <shultzjr@academicplanet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:23 PM
> Subject: (forw) Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?
>
>
> > If I wasn't a dumbass, I would have noticed the "JUNK". I assume you're
> > subscribed to the list and will get it that way anyways, but just in
> > case, here it is...
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org> -----
> >
> > From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org>
> > To: ***** charles <shultzjrJUNK@academicplanet.com>
> > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: debian on sparc, how many cd's?
> > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:10:52 -0800
> > Message-ID: <[🔎] 20030313211052.GM24347@uzix.org>
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
> >
> > * ***** charles <shultzjrJUNK@academicplanet.com> [030313 13:01]:
> > > From what I understand, the latest stable Debian for Sparc
> > > is 3r1 and there is 6 cd's for it if I get the whole thing. What
> > > I need to know if I download just the first one, can I get
> > > enough of Linux on my SS20 to come up to a command
> > > prompt when I am done? Or, what is the minimal number
> > > of cd's I need to download and burn to get a minimal install
> > > with dialup networking going?
> >
> > Just the first CD will do for a base installation. Better yet, grab
> > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.bz2
> > and use that to install the base over the network. I used it on an SS20
> > a few days ago, and it's a 3MB download instead of a 600MB+ one. :)
> >
> > If you want to do the entire base installation locally, though, the CDs
> > are the way to go. Quite often, though, I'm finding myself downloading
> > a bunch of package with the first apt-get upgrade after installing off
> > CDs that are installed in the first place if I install over the network.
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
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