which distro for sun netra x1???

[Randy Melder]

Nice! ...Investigating!

On 6/14/07, Richard Wilson <relw at mchsi.com> 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
> >
>
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