[ale] Debian on Sparc

Ray Knight audilover at atlantabroadband.com
Sat Jan 31 07:01:41 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:15, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 matty91 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> > > What would be the easiest way to install Debian-testing on a SS5?  I
> > > don't think there are ISOs available...
> > 
> > I just got FreeBSD 5.2 installed on an Ultra5 this  week. If Debian
> > doesn't work, you might want to take a look at the Gentoo port to
> > SPARC/SPARC64. If that doesn't work, my FreeBSD 5.2 install seems to
> > be working well!
> 
> FreeBSD doesn't support sparc32, which is what he needs. Linux or NetBSD are 
> the best bets....
> 
> later,
> chris

Aurora Linux http://www.auroralinux.org is what I have running on my
Sparc 20, Sparc LX and Sparc 2.  It's based on RedHat 7.3 and Apache
runs just fine.

-- 
Ray Knight <audilover at atlantabroadband.com>



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