Mike Liford wrote:
I've had trouble finding a Linux-2.6 distribution for Sun Sparc. I'm also working around my company firewall which will not let me use update software like "yum" and Gentoo's Portage system. I can only download rpm's and tarballs. LFS-6.0 requires Linux-2.6 on the host distribution.First off, please don't top post - see http://lfs.osuosl.org/faq/#netiquette.
Second, the solution is easy. Install a 2.4-based linux distribution, then upgrade it's kernel to a 2.6.x kernel.
-J-
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