Re: Debian on SPARCstation-5 ?
On Tue, Sep 04, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:33:59PM +0200, Marcel Hicking wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a SPARCstation-5 170 Mhz with 256MB of memory
> > and I would like to run Debian on it. This is
> > going to be a dedicated nameserver-only machine.
> > (bind9 with a fairly large number of zones)
> >
> > Are there any known issues I'd better check
> > before finally deciding to kick the currently
> > running NetBSD?
> >
> > Could anyone comment on stablenes of such a system?
>
> Use potato, and you wont have any problems. I have a SPARC LX (sun4m,
> just like the SS5), and it has gotten 380 and 140 day uptimes
> consecurtively (only a power failure interrupted the two uptimes). It
> serves as an http/https/ftp server for an internet site. Also runs php
> web applications.
The SPARCstation 5 with 170MHz is critical and not compareable with
a SPARC LX or a slower SPARCstation 5. For some people it works,
for other not or is very unstable.
You should try it with different kernels.
Thorsten
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