Suse 7.3 and my sparc station 20
"Gowtham Mahalingam" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.sparc |
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Hello, I just subscribed to this list today, and from reading the archives I have less skill with linux operating systems, and much less skill with sparc hardware than the average user of this list, so if I sound dumb, ask redundant or seemingly meaningless questions, it is because I am dumb... especially when it comes to this particular area. =P Okay, I am 17 yr old college student at Carnegie Mellon University, I study Electrical and Computer Engineering, and I am working on a Comp Sci dbl major (maybe in 4.5 yrs, w/ some luck). I recently spent a couple weeks wages, to put together the following system. sparc 20, with a 150 mhz ross hypersparc (colorodo III) 256 mb ram, a tgx+ frame buffer, i think i have an 8mb vsimm, a floppy drive, and a scsi 9.1 gb hd, and a cd-rom, the system boots, and runs solaris 8 without any problems ( no problems as far as I can tell) I want to install suse 7.3 pckg. I am looking for any information anyone might have. Will I be able to make use of the bootable cd's SuSe provides? Does anyone else run SuSe on a similar system, what kinds of problems did you encounter w/ hardware support by SuSe if any? Does anyone have an idea of how the os will run on my machine, horribly slow, or will I be okay? Will I be able to use gui panels, like KDE, or GNOMES w/o problem or will it be too much stress on a machine like mine, any general knowledge or things you think I should know about would be GREATLY appreciated. I am a novice at this, so if I sound dumb and out of place try not to quarter me, I really do need help/guidance. thx very much _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]