Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought there were linux distros for SPARC...
I'm actually in the process of trying to install Splack (SPARC port of Slackware) onto a Sun Ultra 5. Right now I'm stuck at the point of not being able to boot from the install CD, but I suspect a mechanical problem with the CD-ROM drive in this eBay-sourced unit as it makes really ugly noises. (But it was $61 total with shipping, so I can't complain.) Right now I'm 80 miles away from the machine, but next time I come to that site, I'll have a new IDE CD-ROM drive with me (of a PeeCee commodity variety) and that'll be the moment of truth: will it work? (The Ultra 5 is new and PeeCee-like enough to use IDE instead of SCSI, but it still remains to be proven experimentally whether a PeeCee store brand drive will work or not.) But this particular machine is already designated to become a server; as for my girlfriend's desktop workstation, she wants a PC. Thinking about it rationally, it'll be our web/audio/video station and I do concede that a PeeCee would probably be the optimal hardware platform for this particular application. MS
