Message-ID: <OFC160ED66.1AA465A8-ONC1256ACC.00312571@hasler.ascom.ch> From: "Thomas Schmid" <Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:09:08 +0200 Subject: [suse-sparc] Antwort: Re: [suse-sparc] Feedback on SuSE-7.3 on Sparc (Beta 1)
Hi Thorsten,
> Some of the problems you wrote are problems due the fact that the
> CD-ROM had problems to read self burned CDs (this is clear from the
> log messages, this are read errors from the CD drive).
I used to different CD-ROMS (all external), and when I use SusE 7.1-
kernel 2.4.2, I do not see this errors when booting and installing sw from
the external CD-ROM. You must have done a miracle constructing this
kernel...
> Hm, which filesystems do you choose ? Do you have the /var/log/y2log
file ?
Sorry, not anymore, that was during the 1st installation; however I choose
"ext2" for all data partitions, with re-formatting required.
> YaST1 will be removed completley for installation, it has far to much
> bugs on SPARC and to much features are missing.
Really ? That would be too bad, because especially on the slow machines it
is a nice alternative to yast2, and since my machines do not have fancy
hw,
(= I know what's in there...most of the time), I do not require the auto-
detect features of yast2.
Note:
It seems I have sent my report to the mailing list instead of beta-test
email
account; sorry for causing inconvenience for anybody!
Thomas
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
19.09.01 10:49
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Thema: Re: [suse-sparc] Feedback on SuSE-7.3 on Sparc (Beta 1)
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback.
On Wed, Sep 19, Thomas Schmid wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried SuSE 7.3 Beta 1 on a Sparcstation 5, with 64MB RAM, 2 x 1GB
> SCSI-SCA-harddrives,
> external SCSI Plextor 8/20 CD-R CD-ROM / -Writer und einem alten Toshiba
> 4x SCSI CD-ROM:
Ok, I have the same SPARCstation 5 in nearly the same configuration.
Some of the problems you wrote are problems due the fact that the
CD-ROM had problems to read self burned CDs (this is clear from the
log messages, this are read errors from the CD drive). I don't get
the SCSI problems on my SPARCstation 5 with 85MHz and I don't get them
on my 110 MHz version. But I only have one internal CD drive and one
internal hard disk.
> The installation in yast2 went smooth so far, until it reached the point
> of re-formatting and mounting the
> hardrives; there it stopped installing with error messages about not
being
> able to format and mount the
> harddrives
Hm, which filesystems do you choose ? Do you have the /var/log/y2log file
?
> going "manual" and then "install", "yast1", it stopped shortly after
with
> the error message "An error has
> ocurred".
YaST1 will be removed completley for installation, it has far to much
bugs on SPARC and to much features are missing.
> - In "yast1", if you try to install a kernel, it does not offer a 2.2; I
> had to take the 2.4 for 32-bit. Wrong label.
This is already fixed.
> - Despite my input about country = Switzerland, the SuSE-KDE desktop is
> set to "country = "Germany"
I will forward it to the right developers.
Thanks,
Thorsten
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