Hi,
Many thanks for the new builds that have appeared recently.
I burnt the latest netinst image for installing into a v240. Here's
some notes:
0) First, boot from cd into rescue mode shell
1) Label + partition disks for RAID1, leaving a bit of empty space at
the start of disk just in case something would accidentally write v1.2
metadata:
Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type
Flags
/dev/sdb1 16065 125845184 125829120 60G fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 125853210 143364059 17510850 8.4G fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3 0 143364059 143364060 68.4G 5 Whole disk
Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type
Flags
/dev/sda1 16065 125845184 125829120 60G fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 125853210 143364059 17510850 8.4G fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3 0 143364059 143364060 68.4G 5 Whole disk
2) Create arrays with v1.0 metadata:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n2 -x0 -l1 -e 1.0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
mdadm --create /dev/md1 -n2 -x0 -l1 -e 1.0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
3) Reboot from rescue mode into standard debian-installer
4) Use md0 as ext3 root, md1 as swap (seems to work without dedicated
/boot ...?)
5) After SILO has been installed, set boot devices:
ok setenv boot-device disk0:c disk1:c
ok boot
6) First problem: gpg --recv-keys operation fails due to missing
dirmngr:
gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or
directory
7) As workaround. Download, sha256sum verify & install dirmngr and
it's dependencies:
- dirmngr_2.1.18-6_sparc64.deb
- libldap-2.4-2_2.4.44+dfsg-3_sparc64.deb
- libldap-common_2.4.44+dfsg-3_all.deb
- libsasl2-2_2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-2_sparc64.deb
- libsasl2-modules-db_2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-2_sparc64.deb
- libksba8_1.3.5-2_sparc64.deb
After this, key retrieval should work.
8) Install firmware-qlogic etc. LUNs in a test array were visible out
of the box and multipathd seemed happy enough.
Any suggestions/workarounds for the missing dirmngr issue?