Re: Suse 7.3 and my sparc station 20

Gowtham Mahalingam wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I just subscribed to this list today,

so welcome here

> 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?

AFAIK it should boot. I installed 7.3 on a SS5, i had some partitioning
problems, but now everything is fine.

> 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,

i think KDE and GNOME will run... but it will probably be very slow. I
would rather use a more lightweight window-manager like windowmaker or
blackbox.

> 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.

so the first step is to try to install SuSE on it, and if you encounter
problems, you can post again a message with the specific problem.

good luck

/Martin

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