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
