My goal is to get Fedora 12-Beta up and running on my ULTRA1 Sparc. When I tried installing it the system did not like my DISC 1. 1. I would like to check the checksums on the six CD's that I made from your fedora 12-Beta source. I read that the only way is to shutdown, do "STOP a" and type "Linux mediacheck". My system does not recognize the "Linux mediacheck" command. Is there no way to do this operation from within a running Aurora system? 2. I have checked. I really have two identical Aurora systems on my two hard drives. The older one on the 17Gig drive from the ULTRA1 that died does not boot correctly. The newer version on the 3.4 Gig disk is from last week's successful installation of that same antique five CD .iso set. That new installation had to be limited because of a problem with a language file supporting emacs. I would like to be running a modern Aurora, but still keep my archive files. Any suggestions for a plan of action would be greatly appreciated. Ken Jones Ken ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.15050) http://www.pctools.com/ =======
"Ken" == Ken Jones <kjones@ziplink.net> writes:
Ken> My goal is to get Fedora 12-Beta up and running on my ULTRA1 Sparc. When I Ken> tried installing it the system did not like my DISC 1. Ken> 1. I would like to check the checksums on the six CD's that I made from Ken> your fedora 12-Beta source. I read that the only way is to shutdown, do Ken> "STOP a" and type "Linux mediacheck". My system does not recognize the Ken> "Linux mediacheck" command. Is there no way to do this operation from Ken> within a running Aurora system? I think you'll first need to boot into SILO, then do the 'linux mediacheck' command. Try googling for 'silo mediacheck' and see what it gets you. Ken> 2. I have checked. I really have two identical Aurora systems Ken> on my two hard drives. The older one on the 17Gig drive from the Ken> ULTRA1 that died does not boot correctly. The newer version on Ken> the 3.4 Gig disk is from last week's successful installation of Ken> that same antique five CD .iso set. That new installation had to Ken> be limited because of a problem with a language file supporting Ken> emacs. Ken> I would like to be running a modern Aurora, but still keep my Ken> archive files. Any suggestions for a plan of action would be Ken> greatly appreciated. Personally, the cost/performance/value of Sparc for me has completely gone out the window. And this is from a guy who had and used some ancient Sparc boxes (god, now I can't even remember the model), ah, I see. It was probably a SparcClassic, one of the little square suckers. Slow, but you could stack em up and run linux on them pretty well. Too limited in terms of memory though... These days, as you've discovered, the cost of keeping them running has just gotten too high. You'll be better off with an x86 machine now days with IDE or SATA drives. Good luck! John
"John" == John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
John> These days, as you've discovered, the cost of keeping them John> running has just gotten too high. You'll be better off with an John> x86 machine now days with IDE or SATA drives. But don't let me stop you from doing this! It can certainly be a fun project and being able to use a Serial Console makes management of these boxes much nicer than most x86 servers you find, even today. John
On 05/25/10 21:14, Ken Jones wrote:
My goal is to get Fedora 12-Beta up and running on my ULTRA1 Sparc. When I tried installing it the system did not like my DISC 1.
1. I would like to check the checksums on the six CD's that I made from your fedora 12-Beta source. I read that the only way is to shutdown, do "STOP a" and type "Linux mediacheck". My system does not recognize the "Linux mediacheck" command. Is there no way to do this operation from within a running Aurora system?
2. I have checked. I really have two identical Aurora systems on my two hard drives. The older one on the 17Gig drive from the ULTRA1 that died does not boot correctly. The newer version on the 3.4 Gig disk is from last week's successful installation of that same antique five CD .iso set. That new installation had to be limited because of a problem with a language file supporting emacs.
I would like to be running a modern Aurora, but still keep my archive files. Any suggestions for a plan of action would be greatly appreciated.
Ken Jones
Ken
That was my only SPARC box so I'm lost on how to do anything without it, sorry. John mentioned silo which sounds right though. I know you're trying to boot Aurora but check the Gentoo Docs, they have some awesome stuff on Sparcs that can be easy interpolated for any OS.
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