(replying to a message in the archives; I'm not subscribed, so please cc me on any followups)
> 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. FWIW I read about this after having installed potato on a 170MHz SS5 just yesterday :-) Apparently the boot / installation procedure of esp. Red Hat wasn't stable on the SS5 with 170MHz Fujitsu cpu; the web page I read recommended installing on another "regular" SS5 and then moving the disk over which would work fine. My experience is that the installation went basically fine, except that upon reboot I got a message "the loaded program doesn't seem to be executable". So I booted from cd and passed "linux root=/dev/sda1" to SILO, and that went fine. I then apt-get upgraded to testing, and reran silo in the course of that. However, I haven't yet rebooted because I wanted to build a 2.4 kernel and haven't succeeded yet (compilation errors, esp. relating to drivers/char/vt.c). Anything known about problems with sparc and 2.4 kernels? I have 2.4.9. But I'm a bit disappointed at how slow it is... Especially compared to the SS20 I have at home with a 60 and 75MHz CPU module in there (not really SMP as in symmetrical, but it seems to work...). Paul Slootman
