Hi Adrian,
For stress and benchmark tests: Install stress-ng and hardinfo2
Some good news for once: I finally had some time to reinstall my Ultra 10 using the install iso that you provided a few years ago. Not everything went smooth, but I didn't encounter any major issues, and I'm (gently) stress-testing the machine now. What went well: - The installer booted without issue - The installation was generally smooth with only a few hiccups - The machine booted the new system on the first attempt, and multiple times after - The kernel is up to date: 6.16.11+deb14-sparc64 - I haven't seen any of the kernel panics and oopses that plague my Fire V215. These must be specific problems of the smp kernel (and SMP SPARCs). The Ultra 10 is single-core. What didn't: - The HDD is making bad seeking noises while Linux is booting, but no messages in the kernel log, and SMART tests show no errors. It's also very quiet during normal operation. Might need to find a replacement IDE drive still. - The installer had an outdated debian-ports-archive-keyring and refused to process data from the ports archive until I manually downloaded and installed the current version before proceeding with the installation. - After first boot, I couldn't install any packages because start-stop-daemon was missing (see below) This is what I got from dpkg: Fetched 44.6 kB in 1s (82.9 kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon was indeed missing, despite the current version of dpkg being installed. After creating a dummy shell script and reinstalling dpkg, everything was fine again. I haven't tested Xorg yet, but I suspect it will work ok with the built-in Rage 128. I'll test the Creator (sunffb) at a later point, when I'm happy with stability. IIRC there was some recent effort to fix the driver and make it usable again. My ancient effort[1] made the driver compile and load, but the UI was frozen at the login screen. Regards, Gregor [1] https://salsa.debian.org/onitake-guest/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb
