[SPARCbook] Sparcbook S1 OSes

[Ian Spray]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:17:45 -0400 (EDT)
"Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah at insanetechnology.com> wrote:

> 	I would really like to install OpenBSD, NetBSD, or linux on it. 
> Does anybody know if this is possible? I've tried booting it from the 
> SPARC boot disks for NetBSD and OpenBSD, and no luck - it doesn't even 
> find the file to boot from for some reason. There doesn't appear to be a 
> STOP key to get to the "normal" OpenBoot that I'm used to.
>
The S1 and S2 are not normal machines, and have no OBP.  There's a small
item at the bottom of the S2 info pages on my site:

  http://www.tadpole.co.uk/~iws/s2tech.html#FAQ

but I'll make it more obvious on the main page.

TTFN,

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Ian Spray          :  Software Engineer     :  Tadpole Technology
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