Try our latest sparc64 build. It still has some rough edges, but you should be able to get the system installed. Has a much more recent kernel and userland:
Adrian, Thanks for the reply. I would like to try later builds and get more involved with the dev process, but right now, I need to understand why 7.10.0 isn't working. I want to start with the last stable release for Sparc, to establish a baseline. I have Squeeze running on a V210, with gui which is stable. Problem is that none of the repositories for Squeeze work any more and it's not clear if they are available somewhere else, or have just been deleted ?. A bit of background: Have been using Sun since Sun 3, the first serious unix machine. Do electronics / embedded sw here, but have never done any Linux dev, submitted patches, done system builds etc. Have done kernel rebuilds on Sun 3 years ago and on Vax 730 BSD 4.3 which took over 3 days to complete :-). It would be interesting to get a build environment running, but are there any resources out there to get started ?. There must be an overall dev process involved which I need to understand before contributing anything. Apart from the usual 32 bit Sparcstation class machines, have an Ultra 1, several Ultra II and V240, V215/245, T2000 and T5220. Could set any of those up to provide ssh / ftp login, whatever, if that would be useful to the group... Regards, Chris
