> I guess Debian isn't a distro?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/sparc/install
2.1.1 Supported Architectures
Sun SPARC | sparc
| - sun4cdm
| - sun4u
there is no mention of sparc64, this was why i decided on SuSE
> or 2.4 isnt a new kernel?
>
> http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-sparc-2.4/
and yes it is a newer kernel, but once again there was no mention of sparc64.
unlike SuSE, they had sparc64-iso's and that was why i chose SuSE.
slr