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Hi, |
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if this is not the correct email to address sparc related problems, please forward it to whereever this stuff was supposed to be sent ;) |
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(1) serious error in sparc install howto |
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the howto recommends using a whole disk as one partition. |
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some PROMs can't boot from disks >2gig, and SILOs in general won't boot anything beyond the 1gig mark. |
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A common workaround is using a small partition for /boot ;) |
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(2) /etc/rc.conf states that achim from germany likes the de-latin1-nodeadkeys keymap. |
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I'm Philip from Germany and I want to add that de-latin1-nodeadkeys will fuck up the key layout so hard you won't even manage to login. Use "sunt5-de-latin1" for type5 keyboards (sunt4 for type4 and so on..) ;) |
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(3) Code Listing 17 |
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..of the Sparc Install HOWTO enables devfs to be compiled, however it is not mentioned in the text.. I had to recompile the kernel on a 50MHz sparc ;) |
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(4) The HOWTO doesn't cover several basic steps as to get a network link up and transmitting, doing basic gentoo-style configuration and the like.. the maintainer might copy'n'paste the config stuff from the existing (and btw VERY well written) install howto for x86 machines |
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I have tried SuSE, Slackware and Splack (continued Slackware/Sparc port), SuSE sux, Slackware/Sparc is no longer supported and Splack won't even compile a kernel.. |
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I am VERY happy with Gentoo running on my Sparc as a Gateway; the install took about 30 minutes (starting with a stage3 tarball) on a SparcClassic, and stage3 contains nearly everything i'd ever need to run a gateway.. |
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after 30 minutes with suse i was just _starting_ selecting packets.. thank you very much for such an easy and so far pretty stable linux/sparc system :o) |
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greets |
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Philip Busch |
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broesel@×××××××××××××.de |
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