RE: linux newbie and sparc

Hi
If you do not have any particular problem I think you could install
Solaris 8 ,it's free (I think).
we have a sparc20 here too and it goes well with solaris 8.
I think suse could be installed as well but it will be a little slower
on this computer.
I tried to install a Mandrake on it, one year ago, but it was very slow.

Bye

Paolo

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 06:33, John Sidoti wrote:

    Not yet.
    I just got the machine a few days ago so it has a version of SunOS running 
    currently
    
    John
    
    
    
    At 07:21 PM 4/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:
    >Are you creating the SUN disk label on the Drives using FDisk?
    >
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    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: John Sidoti [mailto:[email protected]]
    >Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:41 AM
    >To: [email protected]
    >Subject: [suse-sparc] linux newbie and sparc
    >
    >
    >Morning folks...
    >
    >I've recently picked up a SparcStation 20 (actually I found it buried in
    >the basement of my office and my boss said I could take it home) and I
    >figured it would make a good linux box for me to toy with.
    >As far as I can tell it's a single processor machine with 128 meg of ram 2
    >internal 1 gig drives and a 2 gig external drive, internal CD and floppy...
    >
    >After looking at the Sparc dist available it looked like Suse would be the
    >bes to use if for nothing else because of this mailing list.
    >
    >I've been fighting with the Suse installer trying to get my partitions
    >setup right...
    >does anyone have a recommendation for someone just starting out?
    >
    >My thanks
    >
    >John Sidoti
    >
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