Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done
On 9/3/25 17:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Dennis,
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NOTE : do a full power off and cool down before booting
OK, thanks.
That is merely because the POST firmware process will flush all the
memory during the test phase.
Now that the box runs an old old Debian version is there a path to
upgrade using some apt sources stuff ?
Not really. Wheezy is ancient and trying to upgrade that to unstable
will just horribly fail, in particular since you also will have to
switch architectures in between.
Yikes. Well, lets not do that.
The objective is to get to a reasonable state wherein I can
fetch build-essential stuff and apply the kernel patches.
You don't need to apply any patches, just install the test kernel:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
During the install I went with the non-SMP kernel simply because the
machine is, well to be frank, a single CPU machine. The SMP kernel would
just introduce a new variable. Regardless I will install that package
and then reboot. Hope hope hope that it does reboot ... but wait!? There
is no GRUB2 with wheezy. Only SILO. So how does one select a kernel to
boot with SILO? I guess I have to look into that.
If you want to upgrade the machine to unstable, I would just recommend
using debootstrap to create a sparc64 chroot on that machine on a second
disk and then extract the kernel package above and install the kernel,
then boot it with the correct root filesystem.
# debootstrap --no-check-gpg --arch=sparc64 unstable sparc64-chroot \
--include=debian-ports-archive-keyring \
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
This is precisely why I was careful to have two disks in that little
machine. Perfect. I shall try that approach and see what I get.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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