On Tue, Sep 04, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:33:59PM +0200, Marcel Hicking wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a SPARCstation-5 170 Mhz with 256MB of memory > > and I would like to run Debian on it. This is > > going to be a dedicated nameserver-only machine. > > (bind9 with a fairly large number of zones) > > > > Are there any known issues I'd better check > > before finally deciding to kick the currently > > running NetBSD? > > > > Could anyone comment on stablenes of such a system? > > Use potato, and you wont have any problems. I have a SPARC LX (sun4m, > just like the SS5), and it has gotten 380 and 140 day uptimes > consecurtively (only a power failure interrupted the two uptimes). It > serves as an http/https/ftp server for an internet site. Also runs php > web applications.
The SPARCstation 5 with 170MHz is critical and not compareable with a SPARC LX or a slower SPARCstation 5. For some people it works, for other not or is very unstable. You should try it with different kernels. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
