[PLUG] sparc

[Steve Beattie]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:09:37PM -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> Paul Heinlein wrote:
> >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Marvin wrote:
> >>I have a chance to get a sparc10.
> >>Not knowing about sparc is this something I can put Linux on???
> >
> >Yep. Current versions of Debian and SuSE should run on it.

I just set up Debian Woody on a sparc 10. It went pretty smoothly, other
than the debian installer not realizing that the few tasksel selections
I made would fill the (420MB) disk. 

I did have a problem with the debian sparc netboot image and an IPX (sun4c
class), where the kernel just seemed to hang on loading itself. I didn't
have a chance to diagnose it any further than that.

> You could give Gentoo a shot too.
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-sparc-install.html
> 
> It looks like sparc32 support is somewhat limited, so one of the other 
> distros might be better for a SS10. I've poked around on an Ultra 5 with 
> Gentoo a bit.

I don't wanna imagine how long it would take a sparc10 to bootstrap a
gentoo install.

> The BSDs are an option also, I had NetBSD running on a Sparc Voyager 
> (the luggable sun4m) in the not too distant past.

Yes, I installed NetBSD 1.6 on the IPX I mentioned above. Once I got the
darn thing to netboot properly (needed tftp, bootpd, bootparams, and
nfsd all working), it was a pretty straightforward install.

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