On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:13:54PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > I just managed to pick up a Netra X1, and of course I'd like to install > Debian on it.
I just got a loaner for work, as well -- I love these little things. > The only problem is that as far as I know, this server won't > run Linux at all. We also bought a bunch of Netra AC200's which are similar, but beefier versions. Since the 200's do have CD drives, I tried to boot my potato (2.2r2) CD in it, just to see... It loaded the kernel, (and uncompressed it?), and hung. :-( This is a CD which I have used successfully on many other sparcs: U10, U5, U1, SS5, ... (Anybody got an E10k I can play with? :-) Also, the official (and empirical) word is that these boxes (x1 and AC200) will only run Solaris 8. It's my guess that there are some significant changes in the architecture / chipset. (UltraSparcIIe, among other things.) > Does anyone know who's working on kernel support for these? > The box is getting colo'd soon and I'd be happy to give a (solaris 8) shell > to anyone interested in helping with Linux support on these. > > The Ethernet controllers are Davicom DM9102, I don't know much about the > other hardware (dmesg on solaris is kind of sparse.) I'm not a developer of any sort, just a scrounger of old hardware. It'll be great when support gets here, though -- the price point on the x1 is fantastic for a 1U box. (I'm going to try to temporarily connect a CD drive to the spare IDE connector, with the cover off -- The lack of cdrom access is the only thing I don't like, but I'd be happy with having it there at install-time only...) Later, Rob.
