Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:42:44 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20000915124244.A11109@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] success on Sparc 10 ;-)
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 15, Jason Byrne wrote:
>
> ok... my Sparc 10 is up and running now with SuSE 7.0 -
>
> just a couple of notes since this is very much in development...
>
> 1) SMP kernel install failed on my machine - finally went with standard
> 32-bit kernel and I was able to complete the installation.
Why failed the SMP kernel in your machine ? What are the error messages ?
>
> 2) SILO configuration (Yast 1) is set up to look for /sbin/lilo instead of
> /sbin/silo - easy enough to fix running SILO after 'lilo' failure. Of
> course writing lilo.conf by hand isn't a big deal... but the problem is
> probably worth noting if you like Yast. I didn't check Yast2 for the same
> issue.
You don't need a lilo.conf, /boot/silo.conf is the config file for SPARCs.
But I wonder why YaST1 looks for /sbin/lilo, I will forward this to the
YaST developer.
> 3) eliminating 'pads' in doc series keeps initial 'minimal' install (83
> packages) on 1st CD - helpful for an nfs-mounted /cdrom.
Yes, pads on the second CD is a bug and will be changed for the next
release.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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