CentOS - Oct 2005 - CentOS-4/beta/preview version immediate availability

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.


-- 
Pasi Pirhonen - upi@iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

realy???
hi,
where does his release come from? afaik there is no sparc port of rhel, 
the only try is aurora linux but it's been standing for years.
i hope it'll be integrated into the mainstream centos tree. will it be 
in the main centos mirrors?

thanks again!!!

Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

-- 
   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

Quoting Pasi Pirhonen <upi at papat.org>:
> 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
I'll give it a try on a spare SunFire v100 tomorrow, and give a shout how it
went.


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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.


-- 
Pasi Pirhonen - upi@iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

On 10/17/05, Pasi Pirhonen <upi at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>
> If someone does have IDE/CD sparc and want't to put in IDE/DVD, that
> most propably just work with DVD-image.
>
> I have tested the DVD-installation on Netra/X1 and U10 with IDE/DVD.

I downloaded and burned the dvd last night. I tried booting from the dvd
this morning on an Enterprise 450, and it said the disk was not bootable. I
guess I'll try the cd version and see if there is any difference. Any
thoughts? Yes, I have a dvd rom in it.

Grant
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Quoting Pasi Pirhonen <upi at papat.org>:
> I've tested the installation to
>
> - U10
> - U30
> - Netra T1405 (quad)
> - Netra/X1
I just did an install on SunFire v100 (similar machine to Netra X1).  Works
nicely.  Created /boot as normal partition, and than created software RAID-1
and used it as physical volume and put the rest of the system under 
LVM.  Since
it was text install, I had to do LVM stuff manually from command line before
using "disk druid" (LVM dosn't have GUI in text installs, and I
didn't want to
use autopartitioning).  The "workstation" install took about an hour
to
complete from the CDs.

First experiences and couple of things to notice for folks trying to 
install on
Sparc hardware.

The kernel is "kernel-2.6.9-22.EC"?  Shouldn't it be 
"kernel-2.6.9-22.EL"? Typo?  On purpuse?

If Solaris kernel was up and running before booting CentOS install CD, the
machine might need to be powered off first.  This is something specific to 2.6
kernel (2.4 kernels do not have that problem).  I'm not sure if this is
needed
when booting 2.6 kernel for the very first time, or every time after Solaris
kernel was loaded.  At least this is true on Sun Enterprise 150 and SunFire
v100.

When creating partitions, leave third partition to be "entire disk". 
This is
not really needed under Linux, but it is customary on Sun boxes (and if you
dual-boot, you probably want to have it that way to keep Solaris happy).

Supposedly /boot can't be on software RAID-1.  I remember this back 
from Aurora
days.  Don't remember if it was SILO limitation or something else. 
Haven't
attempted to put /boot on software RAID-1 on CentOS, so who knows, maybe it
works now after all...

There are no virtual consoles on headless systems (aka console over serial
port).  At least not as far as I know.  However, you can get command line by
pressing ctrl-z on any Anaconda screen.  Type "exit" to get back to
Anaconda.

On SunFire v100 network interfaces are detected in reverse order.  What 
Solaris
sees as dmfe0 is eth1 under Linux, and what Solaris sees as dmfe1 is 
eth0 under
Linux.  Needless to say, labels on the back of the box correspond to 
how Solaris
sees them.  Also, the LED for first ethernet port (dmfe0 under Solaris, eth1
under Linux) flashes like crazy, although there's no cable connected to it
and
the interface is not configured.

The text version of firstboot is ugly, at least in minicom.  You'll 
have trouble
navigating it.  But be brave, I've seen worse ;-)

I've attempted connecting USB DVD-burner.  No luck.  Bunch of error messages
logged by the kernel, and udev creates /dev/uba (!?) device for it.  USB stick
worked and I got /dev/uba* devices created for all partitions found on USB
stick.  However, /etc/fstab and /media directory were not updated (as 
on i386).
While I'm at it, there's also no entries for IDE CD-ROM in /etc/fstab
file and
/media directory.


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