which distro for sun netra x1???

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Randy Melder wrote:

> 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???

Not Linux, but have a look at

http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/sparc64/INSTALL.html
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/models.html#Netra%20X1%20Systems

  Jeremy C. Reed