[parisc-linux] Another 735 hums to life

[parisc-linux] Another 735 hums to life

[Chris Moore]

After a lot of struggling I finally got my 735/99 up and running.
After even more struggling I got it to boot standalone off its
own internal SCSI disk and make it all the way to runlevel 2.

I am still having a few problems though.  I tried using dpkg
to install something and the process just seemed to hang.  I
saw the same thing when trying to compile something - don't
remember what.

So I guess my question is, is this to be expected?  Should I be
happy that I even got it to boot?  Or should I expect it to be
a fully functioning system?

While I'm at it, let me introduce myself to the list too.  I
currently work at HP doing support for the hpux kernel
(in WTEC, if that means anything to you).  Before this I was the
owner of the device drivers for SCSI tapes for hpux.  I'm
still new to Linux and just getting used to it, but hoping that
I'll be able to contribute to the development in the future.

Regards,

Chris Moore

Re: [parisc-linux] Another 735 hums to life

[Richard Hirst]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Chris Moore wrote:
> After a lot of struggling I finally got my 735/99 up and running.
> After even more struggling I got it to boot standalone off its
> own internal SCSI disk and make it all the way to runlevel 2.
> 
> I am still having a few problems though.  I tried using dpkg
> to install something and the process just seemed to hang.  I
> saw the same thing when trying to compile something - don't
> remember what.

Does tar hang also?  If so it's probably the pthreads problem
that is affecting older machines (my 715/75, for example).  In
theory a new glibc should fix this, but when I tried things seemed
to get even worse - wouldn't even boot any more.  Havn't tried
for a couple of weeks though.

Richard

Re: [parisc-linux] Another 735 hums to life

[Greg Ingram]

Chris, et al.,

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Richard Hirst wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Chris Moore wrote:
> > After a lot of struggling I finally got my 735/99 up and running.
> > After even more struggling I got it to boot standalone off its
> > own internal SCSI disk and make it all the way to runlevel 2.
> > 
> > I am still having a few problems though.  I tried using dpkg
> > to install something and the process just seemed to hang.  I
> > saw the same thing when trying to compile something - don't
> > remember what.
> 
> Does tar hang also?  If so it's probably the pthreads problem
> that is affecting older machines (my 715/75, for example).  In
> theory a new glibc should fix this, but when I tried things seemed
> to get even worse - wouldn't even boot any more.  Havn't tried
> for a couple of weeks though.

I'm currently running the bins posted by our French amis and tar works.  
The more program still has the goofy stack (argv[-1]?) bomb and ncsd still
doesn't work.  I'm not familiar with nscd but it prevents me from using
adduser so I had to do all that the _real_ old fashioned way.  I used the
55 meg root filesystem and it had a root password set.  I had to boot the
old NFS-root fs so I could edit /etc/passwd on the new fs.  On the whole
it's a big improvement.  I can use the compiler now.  Next I'm going to
see if the C100 can compile its own kernel.

The ESIEE download site is:

	http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/en/download.html

Regards,

- Greg

Re: [parisc-linux] Another 735 hums to life

[Thomas Marteau]

Hi Greg and all,

> 55 meg root filesystem and it had a root password set.  I had to boot the
> old NFS-root fs so I could edit /etc/passwd on the new fs.  On the whole
> it's a big improvement.  I can use the compiler now.  Next I'm going to
> see if the C100 can compile its own kernel.

Thanks for the feedback :)
For the password, it is not a very original one: toto
Like that, every one knows! No more old nfs needed :)

Bye, Thomas
ESIEE Team