On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:12:28PM +1200, IT Support NZ wrote: > How was it on Sparc? I have a 1000E server (9 years old or > thereabouts) with four processors and a huge raid array (25 disks) > that I was wanting to try linux on at some stage .... any god for > older models?
Mine's a sparcstation 10 with 122MB RAM, 2x4GB drives, an inbuilt 10mbps ethernet card. Installation went without a hitch, except for the disk partitioning. Things to watch: - the boot disk must have a sun disk label -- fdisk has the facility to create this if necessary - don't use the first partition on any disk for anything that writes to the start of the partition (e.g. swap); ext2 is fine - older PROMs require that the boot partition be less than 1GB. It's recommended to have a small (say, 5-10MB) /boot partition at cylinder 0 on the first disk. Either have your / partition < 1GB or follow the advice in http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2000/05/msg00205.html (other partitions can be >1GB). If you get a failure trying to make the system bootable check your partition sizes. - I've been consistently unable to create a rescue floppy during the install process - SILO works differently from LILO so RTFM if editing /etc/silo.conf HTH Roy.
