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Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults



Yes, I know that this has nothing to do with you - but I am installing
debian linux for sparc on a SPARC machine and I am getting all the time
during the decompression of the files from the CDROM error messages about
"corrupt files" like this

file: /instmnt/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.21.sparc.deb was corrupt

and if you hit enter

cannot dowload dpkg

and then the installation program breaks up.

Suggestions?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Luca Zampetti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Meahan" <wmeahan@wa8tzg.org>
To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults


> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:49:28 +0100
> Emanuel Schmid <emanuel.schmid@grob.org> wrote:
>
> > > > i know the problem... but nearly nothing more.
> > > >
> > > > only thing i've found out: with memory below about 80MB the system
> > > > runs fine (or i just could not provoke the crash).
> > > > can you test if your ss20 behaves the same?
> > >
> > > I have 128-MB. I'll remove half of that and see how it behaves.
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > > It's not an ovious crash though. It just freezes on startup after
>
> I'd be suspicious of the Ross processors.
>
> I have an SS20 with dual SM81's and 192MB of RAM with (2) 2.5GB Seagate
> 7200RPM disks. No problem installing (after learning the "tell it it's
> really a rescue boot" trick) with 2.2.20bf or upgrading to 2.2.20-smp.
> It's solid as a rock
> with no hangs.
>
> Just another data point for comparison.
>
> --
> Bill Meahan  WA8TZG         wmeahan@wa8tzg.org
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