My dual processor SS20 works fine with the 2.2.19-smp kernel package. You don't need 2.4 for that. And the sun4u package isn't going to work on a sun4m machine anyway, even if 2.4 was working on sparc32 machines.
a Joël Soete wrote: > > Hi all, > > I found an old Sun Sparc20 station with dual processor, 64Mb of mem and 2 > disk of 1Gb. > I successfully install the last Debian "potato (r3)". > > As it is a dual processor, I would like to test kernel 2.4 with > multi-processor support. > I first try to boot with unstable package > "kernel-image-2.4.7-sun4u_14_sparc.deb" (and update libc6 and modutils). > But SILO failed to load kernel: "decompressing error, uncompress image too > long, wouldn't fir into destination". > > Being newbee on Sparc Linux, all advises will be well come. > > Regards, > Joel
