On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Johnie Ingram wrote: > "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Craig> 2. try out the debian sparc port. i can only do this, > Craig> however, if it's reasonably stable (i.e it doesn't crash > Craig> randomly - crashing if i do stupid things is sort of ok). > > It is stable. My SS20 was was up about a month before I took it down > to install the teardrop patch. This is with 2.0.27 and 1500 users, > of which theres usually 30 logged in and using pine during the day.
perfect! exactly what i wanted to hear. that sparc2 is going to be a debian box. > Craig> machine on site so i can experiment with porting the web server > Craig> machines (3 sparc/solaris boxes running netscape server) to > Craig> debian and apache. > > I don't know if Netscape makes a sparclinux version of their server, i want to replace the netscape server with apache (but i have to get it all working on another machine before i even *think* about installing apache on the existing web servers), so i don't particularly care whether netscape have a sparclinux version or not :-) ultimately i'd like to convert the web servers to debian/sparc too, but i'm not even seriously thinking about that yet - i need to have a feel for how stable it is before i spend any time planning such a drastic change. which is why i want to put debian on the sparc2 - it'll do it's job as the radius server and give me a debian sparc box to experiment with. > but I know Apache 1.2 and 1.3a work fine with it -- if you link > with libc5. A problem with libc6 prevents it from working at the > moment. is that just apache? or a problem with libc6 on sparc boxes in general? > Craig> debian onto a sparc2 box? can debian install itself onto a > Craig> sparc or should i buy a copy of redhat first, and then convert > > Debian will install -- I did the NFS install from hamm/disks-sparc, > then used a boot disk to silo the kernel into place. how'd you get it to boot initially? bootp and then tftp the kernel? is there a howto or some notes somewhere on how to bootstrap linux or debian onto a sparc? i'll have to start mirroring the binary-sparc directories now... craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
