Hi, 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.
If you have any suggestion exept tweaking old debian installer I'm open to any idea. Thanks Julien On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> 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/ > [email protected] [email protected] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBTN+RrVaNMPMhshM9AQhbbxAAjHkDNw/dbnyflAhaE5/Fi1wszQqgy+SQ > XtFh5R8phHSCXoq5fEounSLcs7V4sPJm0YI2YTC8nxv6WPn5oU3YUFkUeudGy8uR > U2cGBefmJ8TRbG2ZwQgHj4iFwOd1W2GZeo2C5JZ2mwN5uPwkTEbpZdYnCtsMtQyI > 2+6ecjcCdh6qukrb7TVden49RwLRciEPUo3sOtiFr9mwumixZaYlzKVxg+U0+H3t > 72iHBWqEdYsLRWtJwBrFlz1ZpUHNMsr0Zgeo4J1E83Gl0s0e3UtkK/MVaj1bGFm6 > a60hiiMC6hEmsKD3UQ495O8ZIcPJ6gXOnZWNKLe8zl5bWBY9GghAmQc7ZESVf2aH > TUGfcfwckVcqe09c16ZZf6/I3wKvUijs8c0o5NqhShJq5QRb07XJQMT8BCWlXUkQ > ofJHsV60Y34q+zv7TdbQ4uIf7VVibeYaSCgvLgYxdxHnZ8hRQp2rtTYVGQvpOVkS > x69TZk1Xd5AN+yLhKfkGKV7umELYizwZzZNWfFaYKhPuLJElyIQ+zaLZ2P5/Yh25 > 0p9639MU366JyuNeSxF3mIPTxSTTb6ycU6UqnHtf7BzsjeTzMz90w2ZkCfsZHMxr > WmaXwZRVLRHxS9QSZAZHq9Gt+hysCV1/WeaInmxXTFMkH3mufZgG2np7rRwaqQSc > 87Ju1fHnnjY= > =jUmo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
