Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[david.bottrill@xxxxxxxxxxxx (David Bottrill)]

There is a little-publised BETA of SuSE 7 for sparc that can be downloaded
from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/suse-us-sparc/ there are four ISO images
you can download, if you dont' want the sources then you do not need the 4th
disk.

I am running this on an ultra30, however a friend has loaded it on a SPARC
10 without problem. The main problem I can find is that SILO when configured
from within YAST2 does not get configured properly I would suggest you
install using YAST1, in order to get a bootable system, then try YAST2 to
adjust your configuration.

Prior to SuSE I tested the Red Hat version for SPARC, but as that is only
one disk, then the number of binary apps supplied is a lot less than SuSE.

There is also a quiet (Dead) mailing list suse-sparc@xxxxxxxx although since
the ISOs were only released on the 11th August, and not publised at than it
is not surprising. Try searching the SuSE web sites, there is no mention of
it.

Have fun

David Bottrill

>
> Does anyone know whether I can run SuSE Linux on a Sun
> (Sparc20)?
>
> Or, if not, is there a Linux distro for that platform?
> Maybe even FreeBSD?
>
> It's a small experiment we're setting up here.  This could make
> Linux a lot more popular in my company (currently, I constantly
> have to defend it's use, despite of the overwelming performance
> and possiblities it created).
>


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