I installed debian slink with no problems on my SPARCStation 1+, but I've been having problems moving to potato.
apt-get tends to sit there sucking cpu cycles without accomplishing much. For some time now, it's been at: 309 packages upgraded, 57 newly installed, 9 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/136MB of archives. After unpacking 87.7MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (yes, after I hit enter :). It's been sitting there for about 10-15 minutes. It's definitely trying to do _something_: $ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ... root 825 3.2 22.8 4856 3228 1 S 18:30 0:57 apt-get dist-upgrade root 826 98.2 22.8 4856 3228 1 R 18:32 27:41 apt-get dist-upgrade ... I don't see any other processes running that appear related. My apt sources are: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free Any suggestions welcome. Cheers, Ari Heitner DC: 703/5733512 CMU: 412/8622699 www.singularity-software.com