Debian on Sun E250

Post #162,525 by tjsinclair 7/1/04 3:54:08 PM Reply	Debian on Sun E250 Finally got sick and tired of managing Solaris 8 on our little Sun server here. My experience has been that Solaris is very good for a machine that you configure once, then never touch again, but this is an academic box and we're always fiddling with it. So I grabbed a Debian-Sparc CD and installed Linux on it. First impressions: Sweet. Very sweet. Rock solid (but so was Solaris) and finally decent package management tools. I was able to very quickly install and configure Webmin, bind and apache-ssl to get me started. I'm planning on migrating the functionality of my little x86 server over to the Sun ASAP. The install was much easier than I expected. All the devices were recognized and work as advertised, with no extra kernel modules required. Console access was initially a pain [1] but I set up my x86 box as a console server using minicom so now we have remote access (via ssh) if we wish. [1] We had the cable, but were using a Win2K laptop with HyperTerminal. Kept getting garbage during the install, forcing us to go back and re-do. Minicom works a treat, though. Tom Sinclair "While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe." Treatle nodded. "I hadn't looked at it like that," he said, "But you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance." -- Discworld scientists at work (Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites)
Post #162,578 by folkert 7/1/04 10:49:17 PM Reply	Before you get TOO involved... I'd like you to try... The New [link\|http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/\|D-I] Pick the CD Image from below "If you like something newer" area. We have abandoned test candidate 1 (tc1) and the current image is the best choice. It has the new SILO and other needed tweaks to make it work. When you finish it, there is a template for installation report in /root. Fill it out and send it to the address it says to. It'll help out tremendously. Reason being the SPARC version is languishing a bit (even behind m68k!!!!) Thanks if you do it. Shouldn't take long, plus you'll get newer versions to play with. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Heard near the SCOG employee entry/exit way: `Security: We got another Mass Exodus Doorway Jam.`
Post #162,650 by tjsinclair 7/2/04 11:16:46 AM Reply	Thanks for the tip I'm still fiddling with it, so there's room to experiment. Tom Sinclair "While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe." Treatle nodded. "I hadn't looked at it like that," he said, "But you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance." -- Discworld scientists at work (Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites)

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