On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Kevin Flanagan wrote: > I've been working on a gentoo installation on a SUN Ultra1 that I have > at home. Serial cable console is the only way I can go, not having an > appropiate set of KVM parts.
Nothing wrong with that; I've got over a dozen sparcs at home easily, including your Ultra 1's brothers that came from the same lot. Not one of them has a keyboard/monitor/mouse attached (not for lack of hardware, but because it's not needed). Once the OS is installed, there isn't much need for a head on it anyway. > I have Minicom working just fine, except > for one thing. In many places through the installation you really need > a full screen with proper editing, not just line mode, as well as some > of the menus don't really work right. Does anyone know how to set the > TTY so it'll work right? Am I missing something really basic? While I agree that, at times, the installer can look ugly on a serial console, with most distros I've been able to get around well enough. Is this just a Gentoo thing? I've never installed Gentoo on a sparc. > Alternately, does anyone know off hand the release schedules for any > SPARC distros that are pending? I hear that Aurora is due, as well as > possibly Fedora Core for SPARC. I think that you're probably talking about the same distro with two names; the direction of Aurora seems to be merging with Fedora Core. Spot has been very quiet lately about progress, which I hope means he's busy with progress on it rather than disinterested. OpenBSD of course runs *great* on sparcs. It's worth a look as well. I've installed Debian on sparcs a few times and just didn't see the point. I don't know if it is just a debian on sparc thing or if debian in general is supposed to be such a pain in the butt to install and use. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
