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pilage n00b
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 19
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:12 pm Post subject: New guy too everything>>>First problem--> Emerge |
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hey there
making myself known cause i will probably be here alot.
i am downloading the iso as we speak.
a while back i came into the possession of an ultrasparc 450 dual processor system, i put solaris 9 on it and being raised on windows didnt get too far with it, so i looked for a linux system and had a hard time finding a sparc port that was current, i went with Debian at the time but couldnt even get the install to work, so i put solaris back on it and tried again. i tried putting qmail on it and ran into nothing but problems trying to compile. i didnt have one it seems, i got gcc but couldnt get that to make/compile cause i didnt have a compiler bad vicious circle i couldnt get out of.
so after this box sitting here for a total of about a year i went looking for a somw more info and found Gentoo had a current version ported over, so i am firing up the beast again.
any tips right off the bat would surely be appreciated, like i said i will probably be here alot.
Thanks
Pilage
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tank Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 116 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Good Luck!
I have been using Gentoo on x86 hardware for almost a year now and really like it.
I have a SparcServer10 and a very old Netra (basically a SparcServer20).
I have run SUSE on both very well however it is "old" 2.2 kernel. Redhat is even older.
I found NetBSD to work very well on the machines, so if Gentoo gives you too much grief give NetBSD a try.
I am currently attempting to bootstrap my Sparc10 with the latest Gentoo, started the bootstrap process yesterday, its still going . |
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pilage n00b
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 19
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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when i try to do "emerge sparc-sources" it calculates fine goes through everything fine to the unpacking linux-2.4.21 then does the unpacking of patches-linux-2.4.21 then i get an error.
Code: | mv: cannot move 'linux-2.4.21' to a subdirectory of itself 'linux-2.4.21/linux-2.4.21'
!!! ERROR: sys-kernal/linux-2.4.21 failed.
!!! src_unpack, line 35, exitcode 1
!!! (no error message) |
looks like it is erroring out while unpacking the the patches-linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
i tried backing up a few steps to make sure everything was inline. and still got the same thing.
seem to be stuck right now.
i have an ultra sparc II 450 (dual 400mhz processors) 64 bit
all scsi(12 9gig hard drives)
any help would be great...Thanks
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adam613 n00b
Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 21 Location: The Big Apple
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | when i try to do "emerge sparc-sources" it calculates fine goes through everything fine to the unpacking linux-2.4.21 then does the unpacking of patches-linux-2.4.21 then i get an error. |
This isn't a newbie problem, afaik
It also started happening to me last night. I've done emerge sparc-sources about 20 times in the past three days, and it always worked until about 10 PM EDT yesterday. I had to comment out the mv line in the ebuild that was causing the error in order to get it to work, and I know that's not the cleanest solution. Did something in the ebuild change in the last 24 hours? |
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pilage n00b
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 19
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | I had to comment out the mv line in the ebuild that was causing the error in order to get it to work, |
i will try mess around in there see where it gets me.
btw i decided to start all over thinking the system needed a config special that the stage3 setup didnt provide and went with stage1 but after this post i am gonna kill it and save the time and try stage3 again and rem out that line.
thanks for the info
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tank Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 116 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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pilage wrote: | Quote: | I had to comment out the mv line in the ebuild that was causing the error in order to get it to work, |
i will try mess around in there see where it gets me.
btw i decided to start all over thinking the system needed a config special that the stage3 setup didnt provide and went with stage1 but after this post i am gonna kill it and save the time and try stage3 again and rem out that line.
thanks for the info
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Ah come on do a stage 1 , I am doing a stage 1 build on a Sparc10, hoping the kernel ebuild will be fixed by the time I need it. Course that is probably a week away . |
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