[ale] Debian on Sparc

[Chris Ricker]

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...

If there are iso's, they'll probably be somewhere under
<http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/>

I don't think there are any, however. Your best bet is a minimal install of 
stable, then upgrade it to testing, then add the packages you want....

later,
chris