Sparc vs. slink (minimal configuration)

1999-07-16 Thread Steve McConnel
I recently acquired some hardware being retired from work, including a genuine Sun SPARCstation 1+ and a 486 system, so I ordered copies of the slink distro from Linux Central. Installation went smoothly on the 486, but it's been a different story on the Sun. :-( First, the installation took

Re: Sparc vs. slink (minimal configuration)

1999-07-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 07:07:21PM -0500, Steve McConnel wrote: I recently acquired some hardware being retired from work, including a genuine Sun SPARCstation 1+ and a 486 system, so I ordered copies of the Is this system just too old and slow to run Linux reasonably, or is there something