Re: Some thoughts and "Where do I download things from?"
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Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Ok. I bit. I'm sub-scribed to both -sparc and -ul.
>
> I finally got everything from ultrapenguin-1.1 and I going to install the
> beast on the Ultra Enterprise 1 that's *literally* doing nothing here.
>
> After a couple of days *trying* to find some documentation on UltraPenguin,
> I gave up. I turned to the -sparc and -ultralinux archives, read all of
> them, and now I think I have a pretty good idea of where things stand. I'm
> going to attempt a net boot (there's zero information on the layout of the
> dammed CD-ROM) with whatever I have here (UP-1.1) just to check the
> hardware is supported. After that, I expect to migrate the box to Debian.
> I've done it before on the i386 (RH 5.0 -> Debian pre2.0) and reading
> Niels' posts I can see what kind of trouble I can find on the road.
>
> I don't know if I'll be able to get a build queue going on here, 'cause I
> don't know for how long I'll be allowed to use the machine for this (it
> might be one day or forever, given the way some people think arround here).
> Right now I'm into this just for the fun of it.
>
> Since I'd rather spend some time not redoing what other have already done,
> .I'd like to know if the deb's Niels has compiled so far are available or
> not. From what I read, xia01 and xia03 should have those files, but I guess
> "other" developers (read: I) don't have access to the machines yet.
>
> Thanks for the time guys,
>
>
> Marcelo
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