On Wednesday 14 April 2010 08:38:14 pm mat wrote: > On 14/04/10 13:45, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > selinux=0 at boot will get you past those errors, then you can update to > > a later kernel to fix them. > > > > http://sparc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=50169 is what > > you want. > > > > ~spot > > One final install later to redo the partition setup and I have a working > FC12 system up and running. > > [mat@corona ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64 > > To experiment I did a default install with Gnome etc - although I normally > use old sparc64/linux systems for headless servers - and despite some > unsurprising flakiness, graphical login is actually pretty usable and > stable. ssh/smb/nfs all configured and worked as expected under load. I'm > just installing LAMP atm as I hope to keep using Fedora Sparc mostly for > that role, and will give it a good thrashing once it's done. > > With a bit of arsing about I got selinux running cleanly in > enforcing/targetted mode too. > > Minor things I should mention for anyone else doing this is that you'll > have to edit fedora.repo for the correct mirrorlist after install and > disable GPG signing (I did try to import the main GPG keys from the > install tree to no avail). After sorting that out the newer kernel Spot > recommended is available from yum with "sudo yum install > kernel-2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64". > > glibc will not update, force it manually with: > > mkdir TMP;cd TMP \ > sudo yum install glibc*-2.11.1-5* -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=. \ > sudo rpm -Uvh * this is a yum bug i need to look into. "yum install glibc.sparcv9" or "yum install glibc.sparcv9v" depending on if you are using a ultrasparc system or a niagara system works just fine. the yum update seems to get confused. > > You will need to install downloadonly first obviously. > > Otherwise, so far so good.
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