[ale] Debian on Sparc

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

> I installed 3.0r2, but apparently apache-1.3.26 and php4 have issues.
> Apache wouldn't start at all until I increased /proc/shmmax to 32mb, and
> then it would die silently or fail to start after apachectl restart.  I
> found a bunch of posts about similar problems on various architectures,
> but no clear solutions.  There's no apache2 package in -stable, so I
> tried to apt-get it from -testing and hosed my system.
>
> What would be the easiest way to install Debian-testing on a SS5?  I
> don't think there are ISOs available...

I just got FreeBSD 5.2 installed on an Ultra5 this  week. If Debian
doesn't work, you might want to take a look at the Gentoo port to
SPARC/SPARC64. If that doesn't work, my FreeBSD 5.2 install seems to
be working well!

>
> Thanks,
> Krum
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