Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

[Karel Gardas <karel.gardas@centrum.cz>]

Hi Mark,

so no, I've attempt to reinstall debian 7.8 on bigger qcow2 image and 
while doing this I've also changed drive from -hda to -drive 
file=debian.img,if=virt and with this I've not been able to install 
since it locks up during "Select and install software" at 61% 
"Configuring python-support".

So I'll try few more times and if this does not work, then I'll switch 
to -hda again.

Karel

On 01/27/15 11:44 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 27/01/15 06:22, Karel Gardas wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > I've kept running qemu-sparc64 with debian 7.7 and was compiling new GHC
> > compiler there. It now failed on not enough space on a drive so at least
> > I'm reporting that even after 300 hours of hard work, the thing is still
> > running.
> > Now I'll have a look if I'm somehow able to grow the qemu drive and then
> > grow debian fs as I would like to avoid reinstall... If any lockups
> > happen here, I'll let you know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Karel
>
> Hi Karel,
>
> Thanks for the update - good to hear a report that it's working well for
> you. Fingers crossed it makes it all the way to the end...
>
> If your image is a qcow2 then it should be simple to use qemu-img to
> expand the image, then boot into a suitable rescue CD in order to resize
> the filesystem.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.