Just to let you know a couple snags I came across installing Debian on a SparcStation 10. At the end of the initial install when it tries to install SILO (1.2.5), it failed on both the harddrive attempt[1], and the floppy attempt. I'm guessing because it found /target/boot instead of /boot. I solved this by booting again off the installation floppies, logged into a terminal and ran "silo". I'll settle with booting off a floppy, I only have one partition on the 3.5G drive, and even after giving the /boot/$kernel and the /vmlinuz symlink to it a low inode number, it still won't boot off the disk. My second issue is using the mirrors. A few years ago I had problems using all of the Canadian mirrors. Again tonight, I couldn't pull down the packages and release files from any Canadian mirror, using ftp.us.debian.org instead. I recommend some monitoring software capable of transactions on all debian mirrors to ensure a baseline of stability. Now on to the applications. majordomo doesn't seem to be available in apt(to replace this mailing list, I don't want http as a requirement for a mailing list (mailman)). php is broken. It simply doesn't work after apt-get php4 (mm error). And I have to convert my firewall/nat rules from ipf to iptables. This transition isn't as simple as I hoped.
Signet, -- Yashy The complacency of the populace is mind-boggling. It proves, once again, that humans are the same, across time and space, and they are as malleable as ever. <dmitri(at)users.sourceforge.net> [1] "Fatal error: Cannot open second stage loader /boot/second.b" This may be because it's actually /target/boot/second.b at the time.
