Unfortunately no there's nothing installed on it already. When I bought the machine it didn't come with anything. I managed to get a copy of Solaris 8 for Sparc but the minimum requirements are at least 64megs of ram, and my little machine only has half of that. I then got a copy of Red Hat 6.2 for Sparc but the installer crashes every time while trying to create or format the partitions, and now I cant even get Mandrake 7.1 for Sparc to even start the setup program. I'm having absolutely no luck with this machine but I don't wanna give up.
I think I'm going to have to find a compatible monitor and try booting the cdrom with the keyboard and monitor config instead of headless over a dumb terminal. On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 07:55, James Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 23:59, Chris Barnes wrote: > > I'm running a terminal off ttya which is the only option (besides ttyb > > which isn't really any different) > > Just a thought - have you considered doing an automated install? > > I've not tried it myself, but in mandrake control center under boot > there's a thing called 'auto-install' which lets you specify whether > each stage of the install is to be automated or manual and as I > understand it then generates a boot floppy. > > Is there anything on the machine already? If so you might have more luck > either getting enough mdk9.0 stuff on there manually to be able to run > mandrake control center over ethernet to another computer or > alternatively to just use urpmi to install the stuff you want. > > I don't know what goes on these boot disks but I imagine they have a > standard format which could conceivably be modified from an intel box to > match a sparc setup. > > Anyway, just a thought. If you can get it on a network that makes things > a lot simpler. > > HTH > > James. >
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