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ccurran
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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: Trying to convert from RH to Gentoo on a Sparc |
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I've been running Redhat the past 6 or 7 years and I've been rather happy with it. However, due to recent policy changes at RH, I've decided to look elsewhere. Gentoo is on my list of alternatives and has had good press recently, so I thought I'd give it a try today on a Sun Ultra10 (440, 512MB, 20GB) I have sitting around.
I read the docs and prepare to start step 1 - "Download, burn and boot a Gentoo LiveCD" for my sparc (at this link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2). Well, I don't get out of the gate before having a problem. I can't find a "LiveCD" at the specified location (releases/sparc/2004.0/livecd) on any of the mirrors. What am I missing?
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sdunne
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ccurran
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, but A) the doc refers to "releases/sparc/2004.0/livecd" and B) I've already tried that. The 1.4_rc5 livecd doesn't have a 'sunhme' net driver on it... I was hoping the 2004.0 fixed this...
| sdunne wrote: | http://adelie.polymtl.ca/releases/sparc/1.4_rc5/livecd/sparc64/
Here's the iso location for the first US mirror in the list |
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sdunne
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Weird.. I boot off that image when I screw up my installation (and that's pretty much every second day at the moment, bouncing between 2.4.23-r1 and 2.6.3 
I'm running a sun hme on a U60 and the rc5 iso loads up just fine with network access.
Apologies if I misunderstood you. |
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ccurran
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmmm... I assume all 1.4_rc5's are the same (on each mirror)? The one I got (from gatech) does not seem to have a sunhme driver in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net. I'm stumped and about to give up on this day-long Gentoo experiment... |
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sdunne
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Let me go look and I'll post back here. |
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sdunne
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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OK, Disclaimer time !!
Firstly it doesn't say n00b under my name for nothing, secondly I'm the wrong side of 3 cans of Stella
However I've dug around with my rc5 boot cd
The only sun* module that appears in /lib/modules/2.4.22-iso-smp/kernel/drivers/net is the sundance module,
but the startup spam states that:
sunhme.c v2.01 26/3/02 David S Miller <davem@redhat.com>
has indeed loaded. It displays my mac address and gives me a working eth0
Does this imply that the sunhme driver is statically linked in the 2.4.22-smp kernel on the rc5 iso ?? |
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ccurran
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Beats me... Looks to me like gentoo isn't ready for "prime time". Heck, even the install doc is inaccurate (e.g. where is that 2004.0 livecd?)...
Thanks anyway... |
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Weeve
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| We had some problems with the mirros yesterday. If you look again today, you should see sparc64 livecds there for 2004.0 |
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ccurran
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Weeve wrote: | | We had some problems with the mirros yesterday. If you look again today, you should see sparc64 livecds there for 2004.0 |
Thanks boss. I have a u10 up and running on gentoo now! Being a long time RH user, I can say with authority that gentoo already feels like a breath of mountain fresh air. This is *nice*.
One question: I'm the guy whose been charged with finding a RH replacement for our office and I have about 40 x86 boxes to support. In the past, I used rh's kickstart to setup these units. Is there something similar I can use with gentoo?
clear skies... |
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Weeve
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| There is an effort underway to have some tools like kickstart for automated installations/mass deployment. You can find out more about it at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ |
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