[Sunhelp] Redhat 6.2 installation on Sparc 5

[Dan Alderman]

Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:
> 
> Is it the TurboSPARC equipped 170MHz version?
> Linux/SPARC is everything else but stable on SS20 and SS5/170, from my
> own experience.


I'm afraid I have no idea, but I suspect not as I probably would have
been told by the person who supplied the sparc machine.

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

Dan.

> 
> Dan Alderman wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Being new to sparcs (but a long user of RedHat on intel) I need a little
> > help please.  I have a Sparc Station 5 which I need to get RedHat 6.2
> > onto so I can do some BigEndian testing.
> >
> > I get through most of the install with no problems, but when the
> > shadow-utils package is about to be installed the machine just hangs???
> > This is the second CD I've tried so I don't think it's that.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a fix?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Dan.
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