I've got a semi (no X, but I forgot to turn off KDE and friends)
install on my Sparc 5/85 from the 2000.12.18 02.05 ISO image.
The problems with the CD still happen with 2.2.18. But I have had
some with raw reading now. I'm suspecting maybe this drive is just
bad with CDRs. I had no trouble at all with the OpenBSD 2.7 CD, but
then that was not a CDR.
I made two capture logs. The first shows the CD problems. The 2nd
one is the successful full install. There were a couple tarball
errors during it, and I don't know why they were corrupt, but my
original copy was not corrupt, and later I got a good copy, so that
must be just more weirdness from my CD.
The log files are:
http://phil.ipal.org/funinthesun/slackware-sparc-install-1-cdrom-errors.bz2
http://phil.ipal.org/funinthesun/slackware-sparc-install-2-from-sdb4.bz2
Beware, there are a lot of messy garbled characters due to some problem
with the serial console ... I believe minicom is the culprit, but until
I get a "very basic" term program I can verify, I cannot be certain.
During the network configuring, backspace didn't work right for me.
This is one of those nasty things that all of Unix never got right.
There needs to be a way to make _both_ BS _and_ DEL do erase in
cooked tty input.
I'd like to know what the standard/default serial console speed for Sparc
is. I thought it was 9600. Whatever it is, /etc/inittab should use that
speed for serial consoles. It started me at 19200 and I had to power cycle
on that one (is there a way to tell PROM to reset the speed when it goes to
the PROM prompt?).
The network device was detected wrong. I had to manually load the sunlance
driver. I'll go fix the config later on. I'm wondering if I would have
been able to do an NFS install if I wanted to try that. Maybe I should to
see if I can get the correct network driver up in that stage.
I am looking for an extra SBUS ethernet card for Sparc 5's. 100mbit might
be nice, but not required. But I don't know which ones to look for that
will work on Linux.
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