[ale] Debian on Sparc

[Greg]

Yes, that is what I found when I put Debian on my SunBlade.  OpenBSD also is
extremely Sun-boxen friendly.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> matty91 at bellsouth.net
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:43 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Debian on Sparc
>
>
> 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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