Well I haven't see this thst way. I hate to dump working computer, I really like to reycle old computer with Linux but I guess I'll have to deal with openBSD or NetBSD for these machines. (SparcStation 5 and SparcClassic....)
:( Thanks for the reply On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > [email protected] [email protected] > > > 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) > > iQIVAwUBTOb8YVaNMPMhshM9AQh3XBAAzEJTEv2qBptViR9H13HyutSFtbbU8rtw > OFDtnt4yDwPzpC6F+L0/U4pDk9Uzl+EnDSnOYRYiPIwfntKegsCVOT/ewyBrkOOO > 3QAlM82vsJzGuk915YNGbfvTMncUXyz9YrGvFzKDdFkvUIIrCL5kMHAyXn1NxGqL > vpTfcdI2p/S8LPNQvH6VIGH9FUwxlrvJr/2lfKztVLRhBhfzzKoc45/Klitw5kND > UiZyF6m1LtRBarkzSQRin5sj5cPzC+Ac2FAVbNb1+SEFICDKyJr0sanL97aRjo74 > dlqfzT1E5SiFfKEglKvabrAUJq+znRsWOBLjztExKIdlD85a+nRsKjNAsSAPm3Q+ > PPI9ydte/8Ys7NO/uaPpHjKx0YKsOWj8GZ9/fSwZ6lfYNAXWhvTatW2L66No1UOA > S8L4wQPAtNC8/eJnqkWD4BqFmqxscTkNICo8fbFsYwztdH8toKE3BMb7AWIaaPFR > cnh9Qh/LxF50C2QCGJM9N+sO5Gb5weIyjPYBjdtYA18d0aOUqQS+Wk7oulD8Q58f > O2tV5F8NvIKon7GezD4ynopg0FDgBmIQIPc7P9+ONb9vRNeZoepKbuMeLEj5SKT3 > 9bCDI4lFdk6KPmhW4pXtY/wlfmly0C+muIbaZ0OoIvytiPx0dMPyy4znLbHrVC6g > Jmz0799hv+A= > =DELt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
