> > I got pissed and decided to reinstall debian in that IPX. I make a > > testing (I assume the order is stable->testing->unstable, right? I still > > get > > confused in that) boot cd using jigdo. When I tried to feed my IPX with > > it, > > it would hang during the boot process. So, I made a 3.00r4 stable/woody > > boot > > cd and was able to install debian. So, I then started looking for a new > > kernel, just to see if I could go to 2.4 in woody. It seems the only > > available images are for the ultra series. Lovely. > If I remember correctly, IPX is sun4c architecture. IPX is sun4c.
> Sarge (testing) > installer formally supports it, but I haven't seen any reports from > somebody trying to install on sun4c for a long time. So, if you would be > willing to try the latest pre-release image(s) from [0] and submit a > detailed installation report [1] afterwards, that would be very valuable. > > [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template I was also under the impression that all packages in sarge were moving over to being compiled with -v8. From what little I know I guess it would be possible to put a small hack in somewhere (glibc I'd guess, maybe ld) that would catch the illegal instruction flags and run soft-emulation of them, thus allowing unmodified sarge binaries to run on sun4c and other -v7 boxes. It would degrade performance on them somewhat - possibly to the point of being unuseable. Is there an 'official word' on this and where can it be found / who is in charge of making one? Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
