On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:21:11AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm....after talking with some other SPARC/Linux developers, it seems as
though gcc-2.95.2 may not be ready for the 32-bit SPARC platform. I'm
going to roll the 32-bit SPARC kernels again using egcs-1.1.2 and we'll
see if the read problem goes away. I realized that I will never see those
issues here because my kernels are built with egcs64, which was a branch
off the 1.1 egcs tree. Duh!
> 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.
OK, I don't know where to begin with this, but I'll get to researching.
> 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?).
It is 9600 and the inittab should set it to that. I'll fix that.
> 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.
Yep found that bug after the last outsync. It's been patched and should
work now.
> 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.
The Sun Big Mac adapter should be SBUS and I believe it's 100BaseT. There
is support for that card in Linux.
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com *
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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