[rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please

[David Venable]

Thanks to all your help, I was able to see a OS running on my sparc, I tried
Debian first and was not able create the boot floppy correctly, (rawrite
issues on w2k), so I went to a friends house and tried Debian again,
something was wrong with their site. On to Red Hat, boots up fine and tries
to create a ram disk. I bombs with the statement "unrecognized Nvram,
aborting installation". Any ideas? I will give the Debian a try asap.

What is the coolest, old SGI machine? Can SGIs run Linux, or are they
limited to Irix?

Thanks,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Steve Pacenka
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:31 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [rescue] Sparcstation 2 help! Please


At Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:15:15 -0500 Mike Hebel <drone8of9 at crosswinds.net>
wrote:

>DC> But I can certainly recommend Debian.  Much easier to admin and keep up
>DC> to date than Redhat.  If I'd known more about Debian when I set the
>DC> machine up a year ago I'd have used that.
>
>I would agree with this.  I've loaded several Sparc boxes with Debian
>Sparc and it seems to jus come up and run.

Same results on a couple of old Sparcs here and a Mac Quadra 650.  I'm
impressed by the work of Debian volunteers in keeping so many ports moving
forward in parallel.

-- SP


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