[SPARCbook] OS for Sparcbook S3

Koyote koyote at koyote.cx
Fri Jan 31 22:25:50 CST 2003


you have a solris without gui support?

Collin Anderson <col22 at earthlink.net> writes:

> I recently came across a SB S3 at a garage sale ($5, and its ram his
> been maxed out to 64MB!) but its HD is blank.  I need an OS,
> preferably Linux. I'd like a GUI of some sort. I don't care about
> power management, I'll be using it as a car-based computer.  I've
> tried Redhat and Debian. (and Solaris, but its pure unix, and I really
> don't want to go through the headache of installing XFree, or if it
> will even work). Solaris worked, but anaconda crashed under Redhat
> right when I finished the initial setup, and it was about to start the
> actual installation. It gave me a bunch of exceptions on various
> programs, most relating to the installer (anaconda). Debian just flat
> out couldn't find the kernal image once it got past all the
> configuration. Can anyone help? Thanks!
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