ALoha, OpenBSD does ftp install. I have never had to do anything special to get OpenBSD to work on sun hardware. Never seen any sundisk lable problems. You can download a boot.net floppy image from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/sparc/ (or one of the mirrors). Or you could get the latest snapshot ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/sparc/.
You could also look at LTSP on Sparc Hardware or SPARC-Linux Xterminal Package (http://www.pucebaboon.com/SLXT/) Dusty > Dustin Cross wrote: >> Aloha, >> >> OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/) is great on old sun hardware. >> Solaris is real slow on an IPX and old versions of Solaris don't come >> with all the great tools we are used to with Linux. If you were in >> Hawaii I could let you borrow Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6, or 2.7, I don't >> think 2.8 dropped support for IPX), but I think OpenBSD performs much >> better. Much less overhead, it has X and works fine (but slow) with >> the CGSix graphics card. The only problem with 8-bit color is >> everything in the background has crazy colors, but the window in focus >> is fine. >> >> If you want to stick with Linux, SuSE (download the ISOs here >> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/suse-sparc/) is the only up to date >> distro, or you could try Gentoo for Sparc >> (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/build/1.1a/) >> , it might take a year to compile, so I would use the stage3 install. >> >> My opinion is that OpenBSD is the best on old Sun hardware. Plus you >> could check out PF. >> >> Dusty > > Can OpenBSD do an FTP/HTTP/NFS install? I forgot to mention that in > the requirements as I lack an external SCSI CD-ROM drive :) > > I have no problem with using a BSD (I have an OpenBSD box that I tinker > with on occasion). In fact, as I mentioned, I was considering NetBSD > (after all, it'll run on anything, right? :) NetBSD caught my eye > because I know it has an FTP install option. The probelm I get into is > I have no idea how to make a Sun disklabel and their installer seems > to be only able to MODIFY a disklabel, not create one. > > Gentoo for Sparc I've considered (just redid my desktop to Gentoo, > though still ironing the kinks out as me and package managers don't get > along well), though the install procedure isn't quite done yet (they > mention using an already bootable Debian install, and of course there's > only room for one HDD in that small lunchbox case) and doesn't support > X on it apparently. Also, Linux apparently has some issues with the > Sun4c archetecture. > > --MonMotha > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
