Install/upgrade report on Sparcstation LX
Hi all,
After a few trials, and quite a lot of time, sarge is mostly set up on
my Sparcstation LX.
Machine specs (probably standard for an LX):
- 50MHz (at least, based on the bogomips) MicroSparc, sun4m
- 24M (6x4M)
- ~350M /, ~50M swap
I installed woody via an external SCSI CD-rom drive with no network
connection. I then moved the machine to where a network connection was
available.
Next I tried to upgrade to sarge (over the network), but quite quickly
ran into the previously reported problem about circular dependencies of
the 2.4.x kernel and libc6. After quite a bit of painful struggling and
ineffective forcing (and getting nowhere, trying all the steps in the
email threads I could find on this topic), I managed to get wget
installed and manually downloaded a 2.4.27 kernel from (I think):
http://sparclinux.mit.edu/sparc/debs/
Thankfully this kernel did not require an initrd and so not invoke the
circular dependencies. I rebooted, then upgrade the rest of the packages
mostly ok. The only problem I have left is that for some reason
/etc/hosts is absent, and some package upgrades - eg. exim3 - fail to
configure (I guess these are related problems). BTW I'm currently
upgrading to exim4. Of course I can hand-craft /etc/hosts, but wanted to
check which package/stage didn't create it properly, although presumably
this was the original woody install and so is largely pointless to
report as a bug.
Hope this helps anyone else using sparc32,
--
Neil
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