Re: Sparc5 install woes
In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 000901bfd876$255485a0$0300a8c0@shirkahn.net>
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>> I've been trying to get linux on my Sparc 5 for a week now. I've tried both
>> RedHat 6.2 and Debian 2.1 with the following errors
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>> Red Hat- Always ends up in a signal 11 termination when it starts to format
>> the drive
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>> Debian- After doing bad block check- install "seems" to hang at "writing
>> superblocks and filesystem auditing"
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>Have you tried Debian 2.2 (potato)?
Well, I too had a similar problem with potato. The bad block test caused
trouble. I finally managed to install by skipping the bad block tests.
But something is still not right. Every day I receive a mail from cron
saying that updatedb segfaulted, yet running updatedb (or the whole
/etc/cron.daily/find) manually works fine. When I was trying to compile
PHP4, grep was segfaulting in a shell script (and again running the
command manually was fine).
And those weird lockups...
Does not seem like potato is ready for production. I now don't know what
to do about my mail server. Either to try to find an x86 box or to use
another OS (OpenBSD or Solaris) on that SS5.
Sergey.
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