Hi, folks, I have installed Slink on xia02, a SPARCstation LX with 64MB RAM. The basic package cluster I installed was "devel-comp." I also replaced the 540MB disk with a 1.08GB disk. I created 128MB swap space on it. The kernel is 2.2.1.
This system can be used for "auto-build" of sparc packages. There are NFS volumes mounted. The /home currently does not have enough space but will have enough in a few days after I move 1GB UltraPenguin 1.1.9 archive onto xia01 and add more disks if needed. I can also upgrade it to 128MB into this system. Anyone who is interested in using SPARC/UltraSPARC systems for Debian development, please let me know and I will assign an account for you. We have three systems linked to a full-speed T-1 line. Xia01 and xia03 are UltraSPARC systems. I will upgrade xia01 to Debian as soon as I have some time to spare. BTW, the installation (from TFTP/NFS server) did not bother me too much. Actually it was very smooth. There were only glitches I'd like to mention: - gpmconfig got stuck when sunmouse is not recognized - /dev/fb0 still has wrong permission which prevents regular user start Xwin I also hope dselect check diskspace availability before continue after Select. Also this release still requires floppies (resc/drv). It could be my problem since I did not find a way to get around it. There was no choice of NFS install of Base system. Please let me know if we need install other packages or you need sudo privilege. --ward
