Re: Volunteering Sun T2000 machines

[Marc Rosen <marc@acm.jhu.edu>]

Hi Adrian,

The machines are running the image that you released on 2/12. Will 
running a dist-upgrade from debian ports do the right thing? Or running 
a dist-upgrade from the netinst CD marked as a source? Worst case, we 
can reinstall the machines, but it's a bit of a pain to use serial, and 
we don't have the BMC controller enabled for SSH.

Thanks,
Marc Rosen

On 2016-02-27 09:17 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Marc!
>
> On 02/26/2016 12:27 AM, Marc Rosen wrote:
> > I am a undergraduate computer science student at Johns Hopkins
> > university, and a member of the student ACM chapter there. The JHU ACM
> > has two Sun T2000 machines, which are in fairly good shape, and both
> > running debian
>
> Sounds good! Are those already running the sparc64 port? Debian sparc
> is planned to be end-of-life in May 2016, so these should no be running
> without being re-installed after this date.
>
> >  We were wondering if the debian sparc project had any
> > need for build servers, since we would be happy to operate build
> > servers, if additional server power would be helpful to the project.
>
> Can you try whether you can install the machines with the latest
> sparc64 NETINST image I created two days ago?
>
> > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-02-25/
>
> The machines work reliably, we can add them as additional buildds.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian