[SPARCbook] 3000XT & Debian [was Anybody still use this list?]

[Phil Kerr]

A-ha, the list springs to life, thanks for the replies!

The 3000xt was the top of the Tadpole/SPARCbook range in it's day.  It's 
equiv. to a Sparc 20.  This little monster (full 256MB RAM, 1024 x 768 
display) came from Netscape Europe :)

As mentioned below the biggest difference over the 3gx is the drive, it's not 
a native SCSI.  But as someone pointed out the Ultra range of Sun boxes use 
IDE so this shouldn't be a problem.

I memory serves me right the Debian install barfs when it tries to partition 
the disk, under SuSE fdisk just reports that it can't find the drive.

The system itself is running Sol 2.6 fine so the hardware is all ok, but I 
*really* want Linux on it, my first exposure to Linux was RH 4.2 on my SS2 
and I'm feeling nostalgic :)

I'll try the install again tonight to refresh my memory.

TIA for any help.

Cheers

Phil

On Monday 15 April 2002 12:09, you wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:02:43 +0100
>
> David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> > How similar is the 3000XT to a 3GX?  I'm running Debian on a 3GX so might
> > be able to help.  Although installing Debian on it was no different from
> > installing on any other Sun-a-like.
>
> The problem could be that the S3000 uses a native IDE drive internally
> rather than SCSI (or IDE with a SCSI convertor).  I've no idea what the
> kernel modules are in the Debian SPARC install kernel, but if IDE's not
> there, then the installer will have trouble.
>
> If you want to make the S3000 as similar as possible to a 3GX, then you
> might like to try installing to an external SCSI hard drive, and then
> taking it from there.  Note that I haven't tried it on either a 3GX or an
> S3000, so can only guess at the problem(s).