On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 21:34 -0700, Peter Crawford wrote: > An old Sparcstation 2 has been running Woody since > it was installed ca. 2002 by diskette -> network. > Recently I've added an external 18 GB drive and > am interested to install a newer Debian to it. Can > anyone comment _pro_ or _con_ about installing etch > or lenny or squeeze on a Sparc 2? > > Efforts described below have failed. If a system > upgrade is warranted, can anyone suggest how to > accomplish it. You may want to check when support for SPARC V7 / sun4c machines was dropped. For releases where SPARC V8 / sun4m was supported, the differences may be minimal and recompiling a few key binaries may be sufficient. I believe that Debian is moving to supporting only SPARC V9 based machines so for very recent code you may have problems.
HTH Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
