[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora/Fedora Sparc Linux Status

[Dr Matthew Swabey]

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Here I am!

I haven't been active in a long time with Aurora - mainly because I got
lumbered with E3500's which use Fibre Channel SBUS and legacy solaris
apps as the last remaining Solaris systems (although my 'new' solaris
box will be a SunFire v440) and I haven't fabbed the OpenSPARC chip that
my students have been augmenting with some Geometric Number Accelerators :)

I also got out of Aurora when the building I had my suns in burnt to the
ground....

Feel free to use any parts of the old FAQ I used to maintain for any reason.

Matthew Swabey

mat wrote:
> Hmm, this has not been going nearly as well as expected... I've just
> trashed a couple of really straight-forward installs on my test box
> (ultra60, netinst FC9 iso from mirrors, minimal install, known good
> hardware) which just doesn't want to play for some reason: if I don't
> get a 404 error from the mirror (I've settled on
> ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de as it seems complete, fast and reliable, and
> that problem's now gone away) I get weird disk mount errors and lots of
> warnings from LVM. Which is odd, as I manually partition and don't use
> LVM. I'd remove the damn thing if it wasn't a mkinitrd dep.
> 
> So, currently I seem to be too thick to even install FC9 properly, even
> though I've done all this so many times before - I don't have much time
> to look into this (servers on fire off the shoulder of Orion and all
> that) and was planning on spending what time I do have on the more
> interesting part of the process, the update to rawhide via Dennis'
> instructions. Anyone got a fool-proof "this is how I set up my sparc64
> FC9 box" cheatsheet floating around in $HOME by any chance?
> 
> I'll even volunteer to update/redo the FAQ with an
> Aurora-Use-Latest-Build section eventually, once I've got a handle on
> the process (where is Matthew Swabey when you need him?) but I just
> don't have the time atm to sort through basic fails at the first hurdle,
> unfortunately.
> 
> Oops, install 3 just bailed at the silo prompt. I really am getting
> something badly wrong here I guess. Or am I?
> 
> Any enlightenment much appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> mat
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Dr Matthew Swabey
Rm3229, Bldg59 Zepler
School of ECS
University of Southampton
University Road
Southampton, SO17 1BJ
England

Tel: +44 (0)2380 597381
Fax: +44 (0)2380 597442
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