[parisc-linux] 710 support

[parisc-linux] 710 support

[Matt London]

Hi,
  I've not been following the list for quite some months, and I was
wondering how support for the 710 was going (i.e. is net+scsi working
yet?). It'd be nice to get my 710 actually doing something useful :&)

  I'm not on a fast connection ATM, so I thought I'd ask on the list
before spending a good few hours downloading an iso which isn't actually
any use at the end of the day :&)

-- Matt

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Re: [parisc-linux] 710 support

[Enrik Berkhan]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:54:15PM +0000, Matt London wrote:
>   I've not been following the list for quite some months, and I was
> wondering how support for the 710 was going (i.e. is net+scsi working
> yet?). It'd be nice to get my 710 actually doing something useful :&)

I've got a 710 up & running with the 0.93 iso without major problems.
The 710 doesn't have a CDROM, so I booted the included lifimage via
rbootd from a PC running Debian Potato (rbootd is included as package).

The only minor problem was NFS-mounting the installation CD. The Debian
installer tries a V3 mount without running a portmapper, thus hanging
for lockd/statd until timeout, which is really long. So I did the mount
by hand using the "nolock" option and told the installer to use an 
already mounted partition.

You have to upgrade the kernel after installation to get a usable (dumb)
framebuffer if you want to give XFree a try. There is no HIL mouse
support in the CVS kernel yet.

Enrik
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