Hi,
I've had this like since last saturday or something. I don't seem to be getting it to beta.centos.org tho, so i'll just make it public thru the channels i control.
ftp://centos.upi.iki.fi/pub/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/
There is ISOs and .torrents
Know yourself out and try it out please. If you have something less than Ultra Sparc, you're out of luck with this as it's only targetted for Ultra Sparcs (ie. 64bit hardware).
I've tested the installation to
- U10 - U30 - Netra T1405 (quad) - Netra/X1
U30/UPA graphical installation didn't start, but it's something to be fixed before actual release.
I'll post hte updates on tree that yum should use by default when i do have that tree (as in place to push updates).
It's not even near perfect, but it's a start.
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:47:53PM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
I've tested the installation to
- U10
- U30
- Netra T1405 (quad)
- Netra/X1
U30/UPA graphical installation didn't start, but it's something to be fixed before actual release.
I followup myself as i forgot few things (even tho i was thinking what i was going to write about it).
The known 'features'.
- SMP-kernel isn't installed even when installing to SMP-hardware - /etc/silo.conf symlink is not created from /boot/silo.conf - I don't have much idea how selinux-stuff behaves, so better put it in permissive mode to see - There are no keymaps (if one boots with the mini.iso). Intentinally left those out as old ones are behaving really strangely and new ones does crash the installer.
Ie. Those are things i already know, so those aren't worth reporting back. I have been giving a lot of me on build pf sparc, so i need to leave it there for few days and start working with it then again.
If someone does have IDE/CD sparc and want't to put in IDE/DVD, that most propably just work with DVD-image. It's specially reordered to have all the needed files at the begining of the disk, so it should be able to fecth the silo+kernel+initrd to get linux up and running. Thing i had to do and learned with CentOS-4/alpha where the SRM was not able to fetch the stuff from arbitary locations with IDE/DVD and was working fine with SCSI/DVD. Locating all the important at begining of the disk solved it there for DVD-image/boot.
I have tested the DVD-installation on Netra/X1 and U10 with IDE/DVD.
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