On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:04:22AM -0700, Joshua Uziel wrote: > * Bruno Waes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010506 01:55]: > > is someone already runnding debian on a sun blade 100 yet ? i have > > seen one in action and i would really like one, but i want to be able > > to run debian on it too. > > Currently, only the latest of the latest 2.4.4+ kernels _from_cvs_ will > support the Sun Blade 100, AX1105, and Netra X1... > > Running Debian on a Sun Blade 100 is doable, but will not work out of > the box (so to speak)... you'll need to take extra steps to install it, > and the machine is still not 100% supported... but getting there.
I'm trying to keep the Debian sun4u kernels in sync with CVS. Right now the 2.4.4 kernel images should work on Blade-100 (minus the framebuffer support since that is a pretty recent addition to CVS). I tried making some boot disks for Dave, but our boot floppy setup assumes that the kernels need to be placed on a rescue floppy, when I have no intention of making such images for sun4u (only supporting netboot and cd booting). The 2.4.x kernels wont fit on a floppy with minimal driver support built in. So I need to redo the boot disk build to work with this fact. When I have a set of install disks that can support Blade-100/1000, I'll post to this list. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
