Re: Potato: apt-get crashes on Indigo 2 R4000/100Mhz

[Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>]

Hi William,
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:33:10AM -0400, William Jhun wrote:
> I just tried a fresh Debian 3.0 install on my SGI Indigo 2. The box is
> known to work fine under Irix. The installation was smooth for the first
> round (installing base packages, kernel, modules and reboot). During the
> second round, subsequent uses of apt-get would result in a seg fault:
[..snip..] 

> Here's the hinv:
> 
> >> hinv
>                    System: IP22
>                 Processor: 100 Mhz R4000, with FPU
>      Primary I-cache size: 8 Kbytes
>      Primary D-cache size: 8 Kbytes
>      Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
>               Memory size: 32 Mbytes
>                  Graphics: XL
>                 SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)
>                     Audio: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 0.1.0
I'm running Woody fine on what seems to be exactly the same hardware
(except for the graphics board and and with 80Mbytes of memory) since
quiet some time now. Did you set up swap space?
Regards,
 -- Guido