Netra X1 install question

[Gary W. Smith]

I have a stack of Netra X1's and was looking to repurpose them. Anyway, I can get bootp working and get up to the disk partition part, at which time no disks are detected. Reading somewhere, it says that I need to change the disk labels from SUN to something else. Is there a way to do this without cracking the cases of each one?

If I do have to crack the cases, what exactly do I need to do?

TIA,

Gary

[v***@cojot.name]

The disk label is SUN's wording for 'partition table'. It's a
software-only issue, you don't need to crack open anything.. :)
As for the purpose of this operation, I really have no idea.

Vincent

I have a stack of Netra X1's and was looking to repurpose them.  Anyway, I can get bootp working and get up to the disk partition part, at which time no disks are
detected.  Reading somewhere, it says that I need to change the disk labels from SUN to something else.  Is there a way to do this without cracking the cases of each
one? 
 
If I do have to crack the cases, what exactly do I need to do?
 
TIA,
 
Gary

[Dennis Gilmore]

Post by Gary W. Smith
I have a stack of Netra X1's and was looking to repurpose them. Anyway, I
can get bootp working and get up to the disk partition part, at which time
no disks are detected. Reading somewhere, it says that I need to change
the disk labels from SUN to something else. Is there a way to do this
without cracking the cases of each one?
If I do have to crack the cases, what exactly do I need to do?

no need to crack the cases open, I have 2 of them here. make sure you use
the corona tree to install. we use sun disk partitions. you will need to
remove all partitions to get free space if solaris is taking up all the disk.
http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/NetBootRarp should give you a good guide to
get started on.

Dennis

[Gary W. Smith]

Dennis,

Thanks for the wiki link. I've done pretty much everything there. I've downloaded the 2.99 net boot image. I'm not sure which one Corona is. When I setup debian on another box some time ago I had to pull one of the drives and dd it out to make it work (which I know was a bad work around).

What I really need to figure out is how to do this during the install.

Gary

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From: aurora-sparc-user-***@lists.auroralinux.org on behalf of Dennis Gilmore
Sent: Fri 12/5/2008 7:39 AM
To: Aurora user discussion
Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Netra X1 install question

Post by Gary W. Smith
I have a stack of Netra X1's and was looking to repurpose them. Anyway, I
can get bootp working and get up to the disk partition part, at which time
no disks are detected. Reading somewhere, it says that I need to change
the disk labels from SUN to something else. Is there a way to do this
without cracking the cases of each one?
If I do have to crack the cases, what exactly do I need to do?

no need to crack the cases open, I have 2 of them here. make sure you use
the corona tree to install. we use sun disk partitions. you will need to
remove all partitions to get free space if solaris is taking up all the disk.
http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/NetBootRarp should give you a good guide to
get started on.

Dennis

[Rafal Maszkowski]

Thanks for the wiki link. I've done pretty much everything there.
I've downloaded the 2.99 net boot image. I'm not sure which one Corona
is. When I setup debian on another box some time ago I had to pull one
of the drives and dd it out to make it work (which I know was a bad
work around).

Would not it be better to use the newest tftp.img released on the
fedora-secondary server a month ago? I have not tried this one but I
would expect it to be more mature.

BTW - it looks like nothing new happens with sparc fedora-secondary
since few weeks.

R.

[Gary W. Smith]

Looking a the mirror, I see corona now and notice it is newer. I didn't realize they dropped numbers and went to names. Anyway, I will download corona and try that this weekend.

Thanks,

Gary

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From: aurora-sparc-user-***@lists.auroralinux.org on behalf of Rafal Maszkowski
Sent: Fri 12/5/2008 8:02 AM
To: Aurora user discussion
Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Netra X1 install question

Thanks for the wiki link. I've done pretty much everything there.
I've downloaded the 2.99 net boot image. I'm not sure which one Corona
is. When I setup debian on another box some time ago I had to pull one
of the drives and dd it out to make it work (which I know was a bad
work around).

Would not it be better to use the newest tftp.img released on the
fedora-secondary server a month ago? I have not tried this one but I
would expect it to be more mature.

BTW - it looks like nothing new happens with sparc fedora-secondary
since few weeks.

R.
--
Jezeli upadnie cywilizacja zachodnia, to bedzie szansa na odbudowe cywilizacji
chrzescijanskiej. (dr Stanislaw Krajski, Radio Maryja, 10 X 2001)

[Gary W. Smith]

Downloaded corona and setup tftp boot file for the machine. When it downloads the image to the netra box, it starts the install process, gets to language and then automatically goes to a red page with "OK" on the page with no other decernable text.

Any ideas?

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From: aurora-sparc-user-***@lists.auroralinux.org on behalf of Gary W. Smith
Sent: Fri 12/5/2008 8:04 AM
To: Aurora user discussion; Aurora user discussion
Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Netra X1 install question


Looking a the mirror, I see corona now and notice it is newer. I didn't realize they dropped numbers and went to names. Anyway, I will download corona and try that this weekend.

Thanks,

Gary

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From: aurora-sparc-user-***@lists.auroralinux.org on behalf of Rafal Maszkowski
Sent: Fri 12/5/2008 8:02 AM
To: Aurora user discussion
Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Netra X1 install question

Thanks for the wiki link. I've done pretty much everything there.
I've downloaded the 2.99 net boot image. I'm not sure which one Corona
is. When I setup debian on another box some time ago I had to pull one
of the drives and dd it out to make it work (which I know was a bad
work around).

Would not it be better to use the newest tftp.img released on the
fedora-secondary server a month ago? I have not tried this one but I
would expect it to be more mature.

BTW - it looks like nothing new happens with sparc fedora-secondary
since few weeks.

R.
--
Jezeli upadnie cywilizacja zachodnia, to bedzie szansa na odbudowe cywilizacji
chrzescijanskiej. (dr Stanislaw Krajski, Radio Maryja, 10 X 2001)

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

Post by Rafal Maszkowski

Thanks for the wiki link. I've done pretty much everything there.
I've downloaded the 2.99 net boot image. I'm not sure which one Corona
is. When I setup debian on another box some time ago I had to pull one
of the drives and dd it out to make it work (which I know was a bad
work around).

Would not it be better to use the newest tftp.img released on the
fedora-secondary server a month ago? I have not tried this one but I
would expect it to be more mature.
BTW - it looks like nothing new happens with sparc fedora-secondary
since few weeks.

Yeah, both Dennis and I have been rather busy. We need to sit down and
debug why the anaconda images that we've generated don't work at all.

~spot