Debian on Terastation

Here you could find some hints on running Debian on Teraststion PPC.

General

All Linux 2.6 kernels up to 2.6.23 at all did not run stable on Terastation. So up to that point I would have not recommended to run Debian on a Terastation. Especially just the central Debian utlity 'dpkg' crashed the kernel really often.

Currently in the Sourceforge universal_kernel project there is a 2.6.25 kernel available who seems to run much more stable.

So at the moment there is no reason not to run Debian on Linux.

Kernel versions

Linux 2.6

A 2.6 or newer kernel is required to run Debian Etch or any newer distribution. The universal_kernel 2.6.25 seems to work stable on Terastation. The former problems especially with dpkg are gone.

Linux 2.4

The Linux 2.4 kernels built from the original Buffalo source code are running far more stable on the Terastation. I've never seen crashing such a kernel. If you need just some more features in the kernel it is recommended to use such a Linux 2.4 kernel built from the Buffalo sources.

Starting with Debian Sarge

• download and unpack this archive (size 70 MB). It is created by debootstrap sarge sarge and the source code (165 MB) is available too.
• chroot to the new generated directory

 # mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 none /dev/pts
 # mount /proc
 # base-config