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post #1 of 10
10/31/09 at 12:31am
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Does anyone know of a distro that will actually work on one of these machines?

I've tried debian, ubuntu, and gentoo with varying degrees of failure, never managed to get to the installer on any of them.

Only thing that seems to work is openBSD.
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10/31/09 at 12:33am
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Meant to run Suns, Solaris



30 bucks gets you all you need to run it.

or you coulddownload it free
Edited by The Master Chief - 10/31/09 at 12:35am
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10/31/09 at 12:36am
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solaris is an option, but I would like to see if linux is possible at least.
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10/31/09 at 12:38am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by serge2k View Post
solaris is an option, but I would like to see if linux is possible at least.
Solaris is unix, which is pretty much linux.



https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Sparc
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10/31/09 at 12:40am
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yeah, I followed taht exact page.

I should mention I have a boot server up, its just that installs fail.

and I know what solaris is.
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http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst


Debian has a sparc image.
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post #7 of 10
10/31/09 at 12:48am
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also failed.

Gentoo wouldn't work either, couldn't even get the download for centOS or slackware.
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10/31/09 at 12:50am
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Might as well run solaris then... after all it is meant for this system.
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post #9 of 10
10/31/09 at 1:36am
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I suppose.

hmm I need a sun keybaord or else I'm going to have to move the server I think.
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10/31/09 at 4:05pm
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/SPARC-HOWTO-12.html
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