On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:01:25AM -0500, Julien Savard wrote:Even if you manage to get this system installed, you will have no security
> Debian Sarge was the last to officially support all sparc32 systems (wich
> include sun4, sun4c, sun4d and sun4m). Etch support only sun4m and lenny
> only support sparc64. I have an old SparcStation5 ans a Sparc Classic wich
> are both sun4m. I already tried NetBsd but it's way too slow. Furthermore
> compile a single package may takes up to 7 hours! I can dowload pre-compiled
> package from "sun" website but it's not a package manager and I fear it
> won't last with Oracle... In the other hand, Debian Sarge (or
> even Etch) would be perfect if I didn't have apt-get distupgrade from Woody
> (It's the only one I can install beacause I can manually edit the
> source.list during installation) and recompile a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.
support for it. What's the point of this exercise? If you were doing a
research project of some kind, comparing Debian releases, I could understand
that; but from your message, it sounds like you're trying to *use* this
system. I understand the enticement of getting Debian running on old and
interesting hardware; I have a SparcStation 5 here myself. But I haven't
booted it in 4 years, and even then it was too slow to actually be useful
for anything. Now, it would be too slow, and insecure besides. So I really
can't recommend running such a system once you do succeed in installing it.
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Julien,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:24:11PM -0500, Julien Savard wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking for something really particular. I'm trying to correct the
> > > debian sarge installation script and maybe adapt it to
> > archive.debian.org as
> > > it's main mirror. It seems when the installation script was created the
> > > developper didn't have in mind that the "mirror tree" would change. You
> > can
> > > enter information of your mirror manually however right after wiping the
> > > disk ( when debotstrap try to get the release.gpg ) it try to get the
> > > file there :
> >
> > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable
> >
> > > when it should look there
> >
> > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/woody
> >
> > > I think it's a simple variable or maybe it was staticly coded in the
> > > installer.
> >
> > > I already downloaded the installer via this command :
> >
> > > *svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/branches/d-i/sarge*
> >
> > > And I search for the word "oldstable" in the installer :
> >
> > > * find /root/debian-installer-sarge -exec grep -q "oldstable" '{}' \;
> > > >> /root/WhereIsOldStable*
> > > **
> > > But I didn't find anything interesting.
> >
> > > Does somebody have an idea?
> >
> > I think this is probably in the choose-mirror udeb, not in the
> > debian-installer package.
> >
> > Why are you trying to install woody, OOI? This is probably not the only
> > problem you'll run into, and I think we've all forgotten most of the
> > details
> > of how the sarge version of d-i worked by this point. :)
> >
> > --
> > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
> > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
> > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
> > slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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