Re: debian-hppa on a C8000

Hi Frank,

> But did you notice how silent the c8000 is at the same time (even with
> two dual-core PA-8800/8900 installed)? :-)

no wonder, with this heavy metal case! ;-)

> And for the hppa port of
> Debian GNU/Linux I think it's a very good combination of size and
> hardware resources. In addition it has built-in remote control
> capabilities (see [1]).

Interesting for a remote server with modem access to the serial port.
I've tried it out on my machine, but after entering ESC-(, the serial
line simply freezes up. Maybe a BMC-password is set that should be cleared.

>> All of my HP
>> workstations are just museum pieces and to be authentic, all of them are
>> running HP-UX, except for this one C8000.
> 
> Nice! Would you be interested in testing these with Debian to see what
> works and what does not?

Why not? My 68k workstations are out of topic here, but I've got the
following running parisc machines: 710, several 715, one with HCRX-24
graphics, 725, C360, C3600, J5600, C8000. Is there a machine, where I
could help testing?

> All of the PA-RISC machines I own, support network booting, so maybe
> yours will, too. Testing wouldn't then require an actual on disk
> installation, so not touching any existing HP/UX installations or
> creating the need for a disk. You only need to setup the needed
> infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, etc.).

No problem, if you tell me exactly what to do. But be aware, that I do
have a lot of Linux experience, but only with RHEL and openSuse, not
with Debian.

And regarding the crashes and instabilities I see, I'm now sure, that
they are coming from the "apt-get upgrade". The original 8 (jessie)
installation works absolutely stable. But after the upgrade, the system
either doesn't boot or it crashes sometime later. This doesn't happen
without the upgrade.

Lothar