Cookbook - ubuntu desktop install on Ultra 10

Hello,

I ve been working with solaris for 8 years, i don't know a lot about linux and i wanted to install ubuntu sparc on my old Ultra 10

It has been quite a long run, but i succeeded in installing ubuntu server + gnome desktop environment

• download and burn the .iso install ubuntu server CD

• remove any additionnal Graphic card : I first tried to install ubuntu linux with a PGX 32 card installed and the boot install got stuck desperately with the "booting linux ..." message

• update OBP to the latest level, which is 3.31

• always do a cold start (poweroff/poweron) before booting cdrom. If you don't you will fall into the well known SILO problem :

Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernal Loaded kernal version 2.6.15 loading initial ramdisk (4821666 bytesat 0x40000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... Illegal instruction {0} ok

• boot cdrom - answer to the installer questions

optionnal :

• when installed add ssh server package with

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

this package is available on the install CD

You can now connect remotetely with ssh on your ubuntu U10

• Install ubuntu-desktop package to get the whole gnome graphical environment

As i was behind a proxy, I add to set an http proxy with

declare -x http_proxy=http://webcache.xx.xx.xx:8080

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Once downloaded and configured, reboot.

reboot

that s all and it works ! :)

Hello,

I got the server installed successfully on a Untra 5 system (256M, IDE 4GB drive). No problems with graphics cards.

There was one error displayed... that it could not get latest security updates and pointed out a file name /etc/opt/sources.list. When I checked later, that file was not there...

Another issue is...

I am behind a firewall and so I set the proxy. I was able to run nslookup and get IP addresses of sites.

But I am not able to get the desktop using the apt-get install ubuntu-desktop command.

Is there a way of getting it seperately and installing.

As you had said.. the SSH package was in the CD. Is there a way to get the desktop in the CD and install it?

Any help would be appreciated..

Thanks, Bhuvan.

You might be behind a firewall, but perhaps not a web proxy. The apt-get command uses web protocols (http) to get package information and updates, so unless you have a web proxy (like squid, or similar) running on your firewall, you don't need to specify a proxy server. Your firewall translates your internal private address to a public one (usually the public IP address on your firewall) so to other destinations on the Internet, there is a public address to reply to (the firewall) - the firewall keeps track of the session and hands the response back to your workstation on the internal network.

set the proxy to nothing:

# declare -x http_proxy=  <hit enter here to leave the setting blank>
#

Hi,

When I try to install using apt-get I get the foll. message. BW, I have just installed the 6.10 sparc server version...

The error is as below.

Reading package lists... done Building dependency tree Reading state information ... done E: Couldn't find package ubuntu-desktop

I have even tried it with the http_proxy unset.

If you need any more info, please let me know. If I have a sparc desktop CD, how can I install the desktop package from the cdrom...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Bhuvan.

did you try "apt-get update" first? I had to do that first to download everything...then try installing the desktop.

Thanks Jfinn, your post solved my issue!!

Hi, I just put ubuntu7 on my ultrasparc. I get responses when I ping google.com that are within reason, but aptitude cant connect to its servers at all. I uncommented every repository in sources.list but it 404's on all of them. I can set a static IP in this university network and it still does nothing. The machine can ssh to other computers in the network. Would really like ubuntu-desktop to roll on this machine, thanks!