[SPARCbook] My Sparcbook3 adventure (Debian X config?) (long)

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:20:27AM -0600, Michael Schwarz wrote:
> the exception that X configuration seems to be beyond me.  In poking through 
> the archives, I've found the www.nj-onramp.com package of a 2.3.x kernel that 
> will support framebuffer and I've seen testimonials that the "X server 
> works," but I'm frankly a bit scared to start putting a patched RedHat 6.1 
> kernel into my Debian install.

The good news is that debian doesn't really care what kernel you are
running.  If you want to be a purist, then you can create a deb package
containing that kernel and install it 'properly', but that's not necessary.
On my debian boxes, whether they be x86, sparc or ppc, I don't bother
keeping the kernel under package manglement.

> Note that I am not bound to Linux.  If one of the *BSDs will install on the 
> Sparcbook with the X server working out of the box (and provided they can be 
> installed over the net with only a bootp transferred boot image), I would be 
> happy to consider those instead.

If you have a SCSI CD-ROM drive try installing from that.  If at first you
don't succeed, see if there's a switch to set the sector size, which Suns
(and SGIs for that matter, and no doubt others) can be fussy about.

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David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

   It doesn't matter to me if someone else's computer is faster because
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