[Aurora-sparc-user] [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0)

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 14:40 +0100, Karel van Houten wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I finally got some time to try 2.99 to install on one of my Ultra10's. 
>> Sadly after booting the kernel from IDE-DVD, the linux system refuses to 
>> see any IDE device (no cdrom, no hard disk). I have 2 disks, each as 
>> master, and the DVD as slave on the primary IDE. This worked OK in 
>> aurora 2.0
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this problem, or help me to avoid this? It seems like 
>> the IDE support is missing from the install kernel...
> 
> I've confirmed this, and I'm working on a fix. I should have something
> to test soon, probably later in the week (after the holidays are over).
> I'll announce it here when it is ready.

It's ready!

This interim build should resolve the following failures in 2.99:

* USB keyboard/mouse driven systems couldn't install
* mouse didn't work during install for systems with "old" style Sun
keyboard/mouse (preventing a sane GUI install)
* IDE based SPARC systems couldn't find their drives (or CDROMs)

It unfortunately does not resolve the failures on Niagara based
hardware. I'm still trying to figure out why that stopped working, and
I'll post again when I have something that fixes it.

Get the fixed 2.99 ISOs here:

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/aurora/corona/sparc/iso/

(I didn't rename them so that if you already downloaded the original
2.99 isos, you can just rsync the new iso set)

Thanks for the patience,

~spot