I have successfully installed slink and have been running it for about a month. It's not doing anything "mission critical" so I can't say I've given it a work out. One day Apache started consuming all of the cpu cycles for no apparent reason. I also had samba disconnect for no apparent reason. Mostly it's just there for me to play with. It has 96 meg of ram and a 2.1gig harddrive (I believe this drive was the standard size). I did have some initial quirks installing it. I couldn't seem to boot and install directly from the cd. I forget where the error occured but suffice to say it didn't work. I was however able to use the boot floppies in combination with the cd to install.
Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Felix Schuermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: SS5/170 and Debian does it run at all? > Hi everybody! > > I read through the archive of this mailing list and found a couple of > mails concerning the installation of Debian on a SS5/170. People seem to > have problems, but in principle I read from those mails that they were > able to install it and have a running system?! > > Well, to make it short: we don't get it to run. > > We tried to install "Potatoe" on the SS5/170 and and during the > installation process the following happend: The installation crashed > usually while writing to the disk. Sometimes the kernel did not crash > immediately though, but after a second or third writing trial it finally > stopped with a segmentation fault. After like seven trials we were able > to complete the installation process, but with that then virtual > terminals just died instead of terminating correctly. > > We know that our hard drive works (18Gb IBM), because we can perfectly > install debian on that drive if we plug it into a SS4. > > Does anyone has good ideas? > > Thank you very much > > Sincerely, > Felix > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >