Re: Best Upgrade OS for Sun4u? (Currently Aurora 1.0)

Oh great! I take it I'd probably need to install Aurora 2.99 first? If
so, I'll get started downloading the ISO's so I'm ready. I'm getting
ready to leave for the day so I don't want to get anyone wound up and
then leave them hanging.

./Cal



On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 16:49 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 16:46 -0500, Cal Webster wrote:
> > To my surprise I searched for "sparc" on the Fedora site and found
> > pages
> > for "Fedora SPARC". It looks like it's compatible with my sun4u (v9)
> > but
> > I don't see any download links to ISO images. Neither is there mention
> > of it on the "Get Fedora" page where the other architectures are
> > listed.
> > Is this Fedora port in distribution yet?
> 
> No. We hit a rather painful anaconda bug that we think might be SILO
> related, and haven't had the time to properly debug it. The rest of the
> F9 sparc tree (optimized for sun4u) is done though.
> 
> Dennis should be able to provide the "how to upgrade to Fedora SPARC 9
> via yum" walkthrough... he's done it a few times at this point.
> 
> ~spot
> 

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