Nice! ...Investigating! On 6/14/07, Richard Wilson wrote: > Randy, > > A little over a year ago I retired 4 Sun E450's that I had running > Aurora Linux -- they were the only odd hardware pieces in our Red Hat > environment. Aurora is a port of Fedora to Sparc -- you can find out > more about it at http://auroralinux.org/ I haven't kept up with it > lately, so I don't know where it stands, but a quick look told me that > it's still an active concern. I had understood that their goal was to > merge their work back into the main Fedora path so that in theory you > could install on Sparc hardware from a Fedora CD set... > > HTH -- once I got it running (not too difficult) the E450's acted very > much like their Intel cousins running RH3... I always thought it funny > that the Sparcs used SILO to boot (Sparc version of LILO) maybe they > have GRUB working now... The Aurora group maintains yum repositories and > have ported a LOT of stuff over. > > Rich Wilson > ----------------------------------- > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 19:02 -0700, 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- http://spindomains.us/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss