which distro for sun netra x1???

[Richard Wilson]

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
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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
>