You probably already know this but distrowatch (www.distrowatch.com) does have a search by architecture feature, which has been great since I've been running on x86_64. Also, SuSE had a sparc version, which you can download here:
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=2 Good Luck! On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:53:15 -0600, "Patricio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi > Last night I sucessfully install Red Hat 6.2 (zoot) in both machines. It > was the latest RH distribution for sparc, and it works. > In my compaq Proliant I have CentOS, do you now some GUI for yum? > something like synaptic , but ported for CentOS. > Thanks a lot > > Pato > > >------------------------------ > > > >Message: 2 > >Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:03:12 -0600 > >From: AgentM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] linux in sun machines > >To: Central West End Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > >Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > >Even more strangely, all the distros we tried claimed the boxes were > >supported. FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x went belly-up during the CD boot (some > >kernel jump message which never executed...), NetBSD installed but a > >subsequent reboot failed to find the kernel even though we used the > >"custom" install steps. If anyone can offer advice, we would be > >grateful. > > > >On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Patricio Rojas wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi > >> > >>I have 2 SUN workstations (sparcstation 20 and Ultra1 Creator). > >>With M we tried almost everithing: netBSD, freeBSD, openBSD, debian. > >>Imposible to install, only netBSD and Debian installed in HD, but > >>after > >>reboot the machines doesn't boot. > >>With netBSD we found a reported bug , so kernel is not installed. > >>Does anyone know some version of some OS capable to run in this old > >>machines? > >>Thanks a lot > >> > >> > >> > > > >|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- > >AgentM > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- > > > > > > > >------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CWE-LUG mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > > > > > >End of CWE-LUG Digest, Vol 25, Issue 11 > >*************************************** > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ -- Erich Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
