On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:01:25AM -0500, Julien Savard wrote: > Debian Sarge was the last to officially support all sparc32 systems (wich > include sun4, sun4c, sun4d and sun4m). Etch support only sun4m and lenny > only support sparc64. I have an old SparcStation5 ans a Sparc Classic wich > are both sun4m. I already tried NetBsd but it's way too slow. Furthermore > compile a single package may takes up to 7 hours! I can dowload pre-compiled > package from "sun" website but it's not a package manager and I fear it > won't last with Oracle... In the other hand, Debian Sarge (or > even Etch) would be perfect if I didn't have apt-get distupgrade from Woody > (It's the only one I can install beacause I can manually edit the > source.list during installation) and recompile a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.
Even if you manage to get this system installed, you will have no security support for it. What's the point of this exercise? If you were doing a research project of some kind, comparing Debian releases, I could understand that; but from your message, it sounds like you're trying to *use* this system. I understand the enticement of getting Debian running on old and interesting hardware; I have a SparcStation 5 here myself. But I haven't booted it in 4 years, and even then it was too slow to actually be useful for anything. Now, it would be too slow, and insecure besides. So I really can't recommend running such a system once you do succeed in installing it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hi Julien, > > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:24:11PM -0500, Julien Savard wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for something really particular. I'm trying to correct the > > > debian sarge installation script and maybe adapt it to > > archive.debian.org as > > > it's main mirror. It seems when the installation script was created the > > > developper didn't have in mind that the "mirror tree" would change. You > > can > > > enter information of your mirror manually however right after wiping the > > > disk ( when debotstrap try to get the release.gpg ) it try to get the > > > file there : > > > > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/oldstable > > > > > when it should look there > > > > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/woody > > > > > I think it's a simple variable or maybe it was staticly coded in the > > > installer. > > > > > I already downloaded the installer via this command : > > > > > *svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/branches/d-i/sarge* > > > > > And I search for the word "oldstable" in the installer : > > > > > * find /root/debian-installer-sarge -exec grep -q "oldstable" '{}' \; > > -print > > > >> /root/WhereIsOldStable* > > > ** > > > But I didn't find anything interesting. > > > > > Does somebody have an idea? > > > > I think this is probably in the choose-mirror udeb, not in the > > debian-installer package. > > > > Why are you trying to install woody, OOI? This is probably not the only > > problem you'll run into, and I think we've all forgotten most of the > > details > > of how the sarge version of d-i worked by this point. :) > > > > -- > > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > > slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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