Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 02 Feb 1999 19:34:37 -0500, Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > : Debian 2.1 supports four architectures: Intel x86-based architectures; > > : Motorola 680x0 machines such as Atari, Amiga, and Macintoshes; DEC > > : Alpha machines, and SPARC machines. These are referred to as i386, > > : m68k, and alpha, respectively. > > > That last line should read:
> > m68k, alpha, and sparc, respectively. > Wierd, that's how it reads in my copy. Perhaps the web site was out of date... I cut and pasted that text from Netscape. > > There are still some yet to be determined details. We will have > > UltraSparc support in slink, but I don't know if the floppies will > > work on those architectures. I'm having little luck with floppies. > > I can't get anything to boot in the Ultras - not even the > > UltraPenguin image. > Well, AFAIK, sparc64 is a separate arch, isn't it? I thought it was, > and that sparc but not sparc64 was releasing slink. > I must be confused? There will not be a sparc64 release of Debian for a long time _but_ the "sparc" Debian runs just fine on an Ultra as long as you're using a 64-bit kernel. The sparc64 kernel does sparc "emulation" - essentially, it can run 32-bit binaries, and handles the 32-bit syscalls appropriately. This is how the UltraPenguin distribution works. So the Sparc distribution in slink will run on Ultras. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
