On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:38:39AM -0600, ***** charles wrote: > Hi all, > > I just acquired an SS20 with the following: > > 128M of ram > ZX frame buffer > 1G hard drive > Sony external bootable cdrom > 75MHz cpu > 19" monitor > keyboard / no mouse > > I have tried to install three different OS's on it > so far without success (Solaris 8, old version > of Red Hat - Sparc 6.0 and the latest Debian > Sparc download from an ISO sight). Solaris > bombed because the frame buffer is unsupported. > RedHat version and the Debian Sparc version > bombed because of an error in the scsi sub- > system, got an esp0 unending loop off the > scsi bus. > > My questions: > > Which version of Debian-Sparc will successfully > load on my particular hardware combination?
I have an SS20 running woody. I use the serial console (I don't have a framebuffer), and I originally installed slink on it (using a 2.0.* kernel). I dist-upgraded whenever a new stable release was made. Are you sure you don't have hardware problems ? Frank > It seems that Solaris 2.6 should work but I do > not want to pay the $50 to $100 they want on > ebay just for a copy. > > thanks to all, > charles...... > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
