Re: Debian SPARC
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:08:00PM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have a Sun Ultra-10 with an UltraSPARC-IIi (300 MHz) processor
> > that is currently running Solaris 2.5.1. It is my web, anonymous ftp
> > and email server. Solaris 2.5.1 has Y2K issues and I was thinking about
> > upgrading to Debian since I'm more familiar with Linux than Solaris.
> > I know I've got a lot of work ahead of me if I want to do this, so
> > I'd like some opinions from those of you using Debian on an Ultra-SPARC
> > machine.
> >
> > * Is this a good idea?
> > * What things might I be missing that were either in Solaris,
> > or in Debian-i386?
> > * Comments on Debian-Sparc?
>
> I'm currently running Debian on an UltraSPARC 5 (UltraSPARC IIi cpu
> aswell). Basically the system is almost exactly the same as the i386 port,
> even the install is the same (except you have different options for the
> install media, such as tftp images). Some things to make sure of:
>
> 1) Use the 2.2.1-sun4u boot images in the slink distribution
> 2) Immediately upgrade to potato, and the 2.2.13-sun4u kernel image
>
> IMO, slink is less stable than the current potato distribution, for sparc.
I'm running a hybrid slink/potato system on a Sparc IPX right now. yes,
slink is in general less stable/less working than potato. OTOH, potato and
2.2.13 will not run at all on my system, probably because I use a serial
console.
-- Ferret no baka
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