[rescue] SS2 Debian install

[linc]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Steve Pacenka wrote:

> At Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:54:06 -0400 linc <linc at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Steve Pacenka wrote:
> >
> >> Excellent point.  The old Sparcs I get are filthy inside from serving as 
> >> someone's room air filters for years of 24/7 usage.
> >> 
> >> -- SP
> >
> >This in and of it'self is a remarkable comment about Sparcs though..  I
> >can't imagine someone saying the same about an intel box.  At least not
> >while implying it still works or ever will again :-)
> 
> I recently rehabbed several IBM Pentium 90 boxes that were choked with dust 
> from being in a college computer lab for several years; typically they were on 
> at least 14 hours per day.  Only one of the last six had an internal hardware 
> problem - unpartitionable hard drive.  I was surprised by the robustness of 
> these.  They would have had a much harder life than our old Sparcs, typically 
> with ten or twenty different people using them each day, many inserting 
> various zip, cd, and floppy media into various orifices.
> 
> -- SP

OK, However, typically a Sparc 5 or so is much older than the average P90
by some years, and as the original poster said "they were on 24/7" for
years.  I am impressed that any of your P90's worked though with all those
countless re-installations of Winderz :-)

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