RE: linux newbie and sparc

Hi,
 
After probs with SUSE, I decided to try the stable release of debian
(www.debian.org) and it has been a god send...... as for support there
is a very active mailing list and teh IRC channel is very helpfull.
 
It can be a little outdated and there are somethings it doesn't include
but the new version is rumourd to be released at the end of the month,
which should include allthe funky new stuff ;)
 
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Ing. Paolo Marcheschi [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 18 April 2002 09:12
To: John Sidoti
Cc: Suse Sparc List
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] 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?

>

>Brian Hatch

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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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