Re: Debian Sparc

[sjoerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sjoerd Simons)]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Jama Poulsen wrote:
> [ As suggested by Joost, I'll send this discussion to the Enosig ML.
>   Perhaps other people are interested in running Debian Woody/Sarge
>   on an UltraSparc machine ]
> 
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:03:15PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:01:00PM +0200, Jama Poulsen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Jama Poulsen wrote:
> 
> > > Helaas... Ik vraag me af hoe ik Debian hierbij kan helpen met
> > > ontwikkelen/testen.
> > 
> > Lionel has sent an installation report.  I did too, I believe.
> 
> I'll have a look at the ML and reports, to see if there is something
> I can do to help get Sarge booting Linux, it seems to me this should
> be fairly easy ;-)

The cdrom install has known problems. See the debian-sparc list for more info.
I've used the sarge installer via netboot which works fine.  
> 
> > > Ik ben nu de Woody image aan het downloaden van:
> > > 
> > >   http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/sparc/
> 
> Still downloading the Woody ISO, I'll try installing it tomorrow.
> 
> > Debian GNU/Linux on SUN Ultra is excellent.  No hassles whatsoever.
> 
> That sounds great.
> 
> Are you using Linux 2.6.x on those machines?
Linux moon 2.6.6-moon #1 Sun May 30 16:27:03 CEST 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux
 
> What filesystem?

Just ext3. If you going to try others, keep in mind that silo can only boot
from a limited amount of filesystems (ext2, ext3, ufs, romfs or  iso9660
according to the manpage).

  Sjoerd