Hello HPPA community,
I managed to install debian 8.0 on my HP C3750.
Oh boy I almost forgot how entangling IPL can be... and the disk partitioning...
anyway, here is the result:
uname -a
Linux rocky 3.16.0-4-parisc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt4-3 (2015-02-03) parisc64 GNU/Linux
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu family : PA-RISC 2.0
cpu : PA8700 (PCX-W2)
cpu MHz : 875.000000
capabilities : os32 os64 iopdir_fdc nva_supported (0x07)
model : 9000/785/C3750
model name : Allegro W2
hversion : 0x00005dc0
sversion : 0x00000481
I-cache : 768 KB
D-cache : 1536 KB (WB, direct mapped)
ITLB entries : 240
DTLB entries : 240 - shared with ITLB
bogomips : 1744.89
software id : 2000777092
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8235392 kB
MemFree: 8095336 kB
MemAvailable: 8148944 kB
Buffers: 12844 kB
Cached: 75680 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 59884 kB
Inactive: 48648 kB
Active(anon): 20268 kB
Inactive(anon): 8632 kB
Active(file): 39616 kB
Inactive(file): 40016 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 1366012 kB
SwapFree: 1366012 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 20000 kB
Mapped: 30744 kB
Shmem: 8900 kB
Slab: 14740 kB
SReclaimable: 5292 kB
SUnreclaim: 9448 kB
KernelStack: 1632 kB
PageTables: 3216 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 5483708 kB
Committed_AS: 196368 kB
VmallocTotal: 1032160 kB
VmallocUsed: 5568 kB
VmallocChunk: 1011568 kB
I installed the system with kde desktop. When I try to "apt-get install something", aptitude is trying to remove around 350 packages, most of them are kde or xserver related.
I have a few questions, perhaps more debian related than hppa related... sorry I come from slackware linux...
- is there a way to "lock" installed packages so aptitude won't ask me to remove them?
- although I haven't tried it yet, does X environment work with the integrated video card? I remember reading something that with linux/hppa graphics didn't work.
thank you all for the enormous and amazing effort.
regards
Paolo