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Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened



On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:10:53PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> 
> > Well, one thing that'd help would be having a cdimage.debian.org that
> > doesn't crash all the time. That's the main reason we didn't have any
> > time at all to check things, or for Phil to double check things with you
> > as to how things should be done when the first sparc images didn't work.
> 
> I'm working on it -- open's getting a full body transplant on Tuesday
> (or thereabouts).

Can I ask why the box was so unreliable?  We tout our distribution, and
Linux presents itself generally, as a rock-solid stable operating system.
Why all the crashes?  Bad hardware?

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