Re: Sparc Station 20 and Etch
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:50, you wrote:
> Hamish,
>
> Tried all the optiond available using the installer, but modprobe didn't
> occur to me.
>
yep, switch to vt2 and modprobe esp. it might be the same problem.
Hamish
> CJH ANDREW
> DII SA4a2a
> Mil: 94382 3450
> Civ: 01225 813450
> chris.andrew485@mod.uk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hamish Greig [mailto:hgreig@bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: 09 November 2005 02:28
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Sparc Station 20 and Etch
>
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 01:26, Andrew, Chris Mr wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Just subscribed to the list after being off it for 6 months plus.
> >
> > Has anybody managed to install Etch on A SS20?
> >
> > I do "boot cdrom", CDROM boots, start the install, all looking good,
> > then installer tries to detect my CDROM (that I booted from), and
> > prompts me for modules. I have tried all the options, but no luck.
>
> can you clarify what you mean by all the options, I know when I
> installed to
> an e3000 a mo0nth or so ago I had to modprobe esp before the cdrom and
> disk
> drives could be found. So easy to fix I forgot to ever mention it.
>
> Hamish
>
> > BTW, I booted the default Etch kernel. It's quite annoying, because
>
> my
>
> > Sparc only likes new media, not CDRW's....so getting through some
>
> disks.
>
> > BTW, I reported this twice as a bug, but no acknowledgement, so not
>
> sure
>
> > if being addressed. Next plan could be a Sarge install (no probs),
> > then maybe see if "apt-get dist-upgrade" works. I've never tried
>
> this.
>
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > CJH ANDREW
> > DII SA4a2a
> > Mil: 94382 3450
> > Civ: 01225 813450
> > chris.andrew485@mod.uk
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