[SPARCbook] Sparcbook S1 OSes

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

So I may be able to install linux using the 2.0.x kernel on it if I'm 
really crafty? The little boot menu it gives me when I turn it on seems to 
be not very friendly about booting other OSes...
Thanks so much - it's cool to have somebody on the list who actually works 
for Tadpole :)
	-Josiah


On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Ian Spray wrote:

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,