Hi, everybody. I am posting this because for the first time in a long time, I have just finished my first boot on a (32-bit) Sparcstation20. My apologies to people on the Debian related lists, as the distro that I have booted is Aurora, which is rpm based and not debs.
I just thought that people may want to know that a non-BSD distro is still usable, with a recent (2.6) kernel. I think i'll be using a non-Gnome (or even non-GUI) environment, due to the hardware limitations. Thanks to Tom spot Callaway for the help. Cheers, Chris. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 Nov 2007 17:09 Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Anyone managed to boot from the CD on an SS20? To: Aurora user discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spot, Just started a default graphical install. The esp module loaded, so you did well. Looks like X hasn't configured my mouse :-). Early days, yet, as not started installing packages etc, yet. Maybe I will go for text on the next run. Will keep you posted. Thanks, Chris. On 19/11/2007, Tom spot Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 21:48 +0000, Chris Andrew wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to boot a version of Aurora from the CD, not a RARP/net install. > > > > I know Spot has been working on re-writing the esp module, which has > > caused so many problems. > > > > Has anyone managed to get an install done from the CD? If so, can you > > point me two an ISO location? > > I was able to successfully do an install of corona on one of my SS20s. > > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/aurora/corona/sparc/iso > > Burn at 4X, use "linux expert text", pray. > > In fact, I've been meaning to make that into 2.99. I'll wait for you to > give it a shot before I do. > > ~spot > > _______________________________________________ > Aurora-sparc-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user > Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
