Gowtham Mahalingam wrote: > > Hello, > I just subscribed to this list today,
so welcome here > and from reading the archives I have > less skill with linux operating systems, and much less skill with sparc > hardware than the average user of this list, so if I sound dumb, ask > redundant or seemingly meaningless questions, it is because I am dumb... > especially when it comes to this particular area. =P > Okay, I am 17 yr old college student at Carnegie Mellon University, I study > Electrical and Computer Engineering, and I am working on a Comp Sci dbl > major (maybe in 4.5 yrs, w/ some luck). > I recently spent a couple weeks wages, to put together the following system. > > sparc 20, with a 150 mhz ross hypersparc (colorodo III) > 256 mb ram, a tgx+ frame buffer, i think i have an 8mb vsimm, a floppy > drive, and a scsi 9.1 gb hd, and a cd-rom, the system boots, and runs > solaris 8 without any problems ( no problems as far as I can tell) > > I want to install suse 7.3 pckg. I am looking for any information anyone > might have. Will I be able to make use of the bootable cd's SuSe provides? AFAIK it should boot. I installed 7.3 on a SS5, i had some partitioning problems, but now everything is fine. > Does anyone else run SuSe on a similar system, what kinds of problems did > you encounter w/ hardware support by SuSe if any? Does anyone have an idea > of how the os will run on my machine, horribly slow, or will I be okay? Will > I be able to use gui panels, like KDE, or GNOMES w/o problem or will it be > too much stress on a machine like mine, i think KDE and GNOME will run... but it will probably be very slow. I would rather use a more lightweight window-manager like windowmaker or blackbox. > any general knowledge or things you > think I should know about would be GREATLY appreciated. I am a novice at > this, so if I sound dumb and out of place try not to quarter me, I really do > need help/guidance. so the first step is to try to install SuSE on it, and if you encounter problems, you can post again a message with the specific problem. good luck /Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
