I would recommend OpenBSD. it has a port (and I have installed on sun systems 
before with no vid/kb without a hitch).

other than that, everytime I have ever had to install linux on a sun box, its 
been a real PITA to get running initially.

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 19:02, Randy Melder wrote:
> Group,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can make a recommendation for a distro for me
> to install?
>
> Basically, this super cheap sun box is sitting in my test rack totally
> dark. It's got:
> 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe
> 512MB RAM
> 2x80GB IDE drives
> LOM (no video, no keyboard)
>
> Here's some really old installation instructions.
> http://040.digital-bless.com/texts/installing_debian_linux_on_sun_netra_x1.
>html
>
> I would prefer to install CentOS on it, but there's no port. So...
> other than Debian, what do people suggest???
>
> thanks!
>
> ; ) .randy
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