Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2023-06-06
Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc |
|---|---|
| Organization | GENUNIX |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 6/7/23 03:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Dennis!
>
Good day Sir !
>> Sadly the Fujitsu M3000 SPARC64 VII+ does bad things after we see GRUB :
>> (...)
>> Sadly this machine seems to be nothing but a fancy brick with 64G of
>> expensive ECC memory etc etc.
>
> I don't think the Fujitsu SPARC64 CPUs were ever officially supported by
> the Linux kernel, were they? Probably not going to happen in the future
> either.
>
Sadly the machine isa bit of a brick. Maybe NetBSD works? No idea.
However a much older and smaller UltraSPARC IIi Netra seems to be
working just perfect. I am doing the install now, live, streaming on
YouTube.
To say the least it is a slow and boring stream :)
But it works !