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First off, I'd like to thank all involved with the Fedora/Sparc project
for your ideas and input
<br>
on getting a successful install with the Core 12 Sparc distro. I found
that tampering with the
<br>
partitioning at all is a 'bad thing', and succeeded with a stock
install using a combination of
<br>
ttyS0 and VNC. Incidentally, on the 280R, console=ttyS0 will also cause
the install to hang if it is
<br>
included in the boot script, so everything past the initial OBP boot to
the cdrom needs to be
<br>
performed in VNC. I also had to re-initialize the FC-AL drives to get a
successful installation
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after 2 tries in the text mode.
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After re-booting and doing some updates, I'm still getting some
dependency failures on some
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packages I try to install, but it may be related to not pointing to the
right repos. If someone can
<br>
point me the right direction on that, I would appreciate it.
<br>
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The only outstanding problem I have at the moment is that Gnome in VNC
has a recurring loop
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that is trying to open Nautilus (i.e. 100+ icons in the taskbar and
growing). I tried killing the
<br>
process, but to no avail. It keeps retrying indefinitely. Is there some
way I can clear the session
<br>
cache <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>before<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> I start the vncserver service to try
to clear this? Thanks! (I do have Midnight
<br>
Commander installed and have SSH access to perform any necessary
command line stuff.)
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<br>
Dave Land
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Land Computer Service
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Machine: Sunfire 280R UltraSparc IIIcu 1200mhz. 8GB. 2 x 73GB. FC-AL
drives. No framebuffer.
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Dev. Site: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.landcomp.net:885">http://www.landcomp.net:885</a>
(just a temp page till I get some content worked up.) <span
class="moz-smiley-s3" title=";)"><span>;)</span></span>
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