Juan Cespedes wrote: > Hi! > > I'm Juan Cespedes, from Spain, and would like to help the > project; I have one Sparc Classic with RedHat 4.0 and two SparStation > 10 with Solaris (one of which, at least, will have Linux in short). > > I would like to know where can I get the packages which have > been ported (lix.polytechnique.fr, perhaps?) and what could I do to > help. > > Is it still necesary to begin with a RedHat installation? I > would like to do the necessary to avoid that (I don't have any RedHat > CD, nor any mirror near here). > > Juan Cespedes
Welcome to our Debian for the SPARC list :-) you can start a Debian installation from network using a set of archives from one ftp site under .../disks-sparc/970328. Currently, the master site is ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc There is also one mirror site at ftp://ftp.geog.ubc.ca/pub/sparclinux/debian (look at it to find other mirrors of sparclinux stuff that are candidates to also mirror debiansparc). So, download the stuff to configure for bootstrapping from .../disks-sparc/970328 directory then read Debian-SPARC.txt. It tries to explain how to start. After you have installed the base system, you can try to install other packages from .../binary-sparc distribution. This distribution is far from completeness but can help you to start. Especially, there is a gcc package to help us compiling more, more packages... Robert Nemkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now an active developer on this list. He has built some packages you can find at ftp://silver.drk.hu/pub/debian-sparc There is a make program, ... and also a vi binary (elvis.gz). Hope it helps. Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
