> I am attempting (and have been for the past day and a half) to install Linux > on a Sun e250 I have here w/ dual 248mhz' USparc II's > I have tried Redhat 6.2, Slackware 7.1, Suse 7.1, and Mandrake 7.1 (yes, all > sparc iso's) and now Debian 2.2r2. > Everytime during install I get either crashes, illegal ops, seg faults, or > it plain wont give me a SILO prompt. I am starting to think I've got bad > hardware or something. > With this lastest distro, (debian 2.2r2) I get to the part where I can > install device drivers if needed, i choose that step, then choose 'skip' to > skip the step, and I get a seg fault...and thats as far as I get. I am > taken back to the menu part where I can configure add'l device drivers. > > btw, I am configuring through the serial port > oh, and i can install solaris 7 on this box just fine, so i dont think its > hardware... >
If you have an HW problem, I can help you. 1 - Install Solaris on a drive 2 - run /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v 3 - install SunVts package (SUNWsunvts on solaris suplement software CD), and run it for 3 days 'non stop' in stress mode on CPU, memory and system board. 4 - phone to sun hotline good luck
