Hi Tom! On 05/16/2018 07:09 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote: > The current ports page does not indicate specific support for the Blade > 1000. Is this likely to work on this fairly old, but very well built > and still serviceable equipment?
Yes, a SunBlade 1000 should work fine. In fact, anything that is UltraSPARC or newer should be supported. I have a SunBlade 100 myself which runs Debian sparc64 fine. Although it's not the fastest machine with 500 MHz, of course. > Are there known issues of which I ought to be aware before attempting > installation? I suggest using this image so the bootloader that gets installed is GRUB instead of SILO: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso And, when prompted for a mirror, type: Mirror: http://ftp.ports.debian.org Directory: debian-ports Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
