On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:04:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > Rhonda R. Wilson said: > > > Is this the right spot? > > im sure people here will be more then happy to help but if your > household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to > debian(which is easier to manage in the long run usually). > > the only other linux distro I have tried on sparc was SuSE 7.3, and > it installed pretty flawlessly on an ultra 1 creator 3D. > > though I went back to debian pretty quick :) first distro i used was caldera.. [bad memories] Second suse that lasted a bit longer, till i discoverd the way :)
I did a suse install for a friend recently and it still sucks.[IMHO] Far too pretty and i couldnt find icewm. On the other hand, i have been using debian for a few years on i386 and it was a bit of a stuggle to get it onto my IPC [sun4c] but this was due to mu inability to confiure a boot server rather than anything wrong with the actual sparc [well apart from a file locking issue with the nfs root] Anyway i say go for debian! you can do it! post probs, but rtm and google first =o) -- hugh
