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PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:14 am    Post subject: Successfull installation on 2 sparc boxes (Sunblade 150s)!! Reply with quote

Happy to say I managed to install Gentoo on 2 sparc boxes at work and they are all running smoothly. So if you have a question about running gentoo on a SunBlade 150 I will be happy to help as this forum has helped me so much during the process :D

I am goning to try to install Gentoo on one of the SunFire v240 servers we have today via management console so wish me luck!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what works?

what doesnt?

onboard network?
onboard pgx64?
USB?
usb mouse/kb?
sound?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GenTimJS wrote:
what works?

what doesnt?

onboard network?
onboard pgx64?
USB?
usb mouse/kb?
sound?


Network works fine.
PGX64 is working in Xorg but has a few graphical glitches in KDE
All USB devices inc mouse keyb are fine also
Sound doesn't work but I have not tried to get it to work cause I don't need it at work - but if anyone knows how to configure that sound card then gimmie a shout :)
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HELP...

Ok so now that is out of the way..

I am trying to install the Gentoo 2.4 livecd version on a SunBlade 150 that I have and am running into some issues:

I can start the install and get the network up and working (modprobe 8390) and start up sshd. The issues that I am having is when I try and fdisk (yes I left /dev/hda3) the box seems to lock up. I have also gotten past that step and mke2fs and able to mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo but when I try and untar the stage3 file it locks up on me again..


Ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you using the original hard drive in this box? I know there are size-related IDE issues with some sparcs and some versions of OBP. Is there an update for your OBP you can install?

Josh
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it is the original drive that came with the system..

How would I update the obp?

Thanks!
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