Re: [ProgSoc] What to do with the SparcCenter2000E...

[Telford <telford@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:15:30PM +1100, miKe wrote:
> 
> just as an aside... i'm presuming that you're trying to get linux to run
> on it. Have you seen wether or not installing solaris gives the same type
> of errors?

OK, good news and bad...

I swapped a few more boards around and got it to the point of showing
and <OK> prompt and also it will netboot the debian tftp installer.
Unfortunately it seems to hang while setting up swap space on the
hard drive. This time it looks like it IS an OS problem. No, I haven't
tried Solaris on it, I don't think I'll try much more today because of
time limitations.

Hmmm, actually as I type this I see that the thing hadn't crashed at
all it was checking for bad blocks and eventually came back.
The debian menu-based installer is kind of difficult to use on a vt100
because it doesn't highlight the menu option that you have chosen as
a result I have ended up doing a bad-block scan on the whole (largish)
drive. Well, I'll leave that running for now... 

So far nothing is broken except the user interface not being very
nice with a vt100.

Well, checking for bad blocks is probably a good idea anyhow.

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