[SPARCbook] Sol9 on RDI Powerlite 170

[Borgen_Gary]

Peter,
What version (flavor) of Linux did you try on the 170?
Do you remember what errors you got during the install attempt?
Thanks,
Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helena Soderholm" <helsod at algonet.se>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:12 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Sol9 on RDI Powerlite 170


> Actually I did install Sol9 on an RDI Powerlite 170 which I later sold so
> I no longer have it. It worked pretty well as far as I could determine
> although I didn't do many tests or keep it for long, because the drive was
> pretty small and it was kind of slow so there was a lot of tweaking to
> get it to fit. It looked nice with KDE though.
>
> The graphics is of course not so hot on that machine, but it works easily
> with every version of Solaris, which is nice.
>
> It was a bummer that Linux didn't run on it, not to mention NextStep. I
> might have kept it then but I needed money for some new gizmo, and now I
> have the Ultrabook to battle with : - )
>
> There was no issues with the installation that I can remember apart from
> fitting the stuff on the drive.
>
> Peter
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