Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:20:52 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20000911082052.A2483@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] general questions...
On Sun, Sep 10, Jason Byrne wrote:
>
> hi...
>
> I have a Sun Sparc 10 with dual processors, 64mb, internal 1g scsi
> drive, etc... currently running *another* sparc Linux distribution - and
> I'm thrilled to see the SuSE port for sparc hardware - since I run SuSE on
> all of my x86 machines by choice.
>
> just wondering if anyone can answer some general questions - since the
> FAQ list was empty the last time I checked.
>
> Is there an SMP kernel in the current iso images?
Yes. There is a SMP kernel.
>
> Will there be an *official* announcement of the SuSE sparc
> distribution...
There was one already in german, the english one should follow
in a short time.
> and will it be available in a boxed form?
It is not planned for 7.0, only a OEM version. We have no plans
for 7.1, since it is our first release it will depend on the
feedback we get.
> Does anyone know of a specific list of mirrors with the sparc
> distribution? I've stumbled across a couple... but I'm generally looking
> at ~ 2 hr downloads for each iso image - even on a fast connection at a
> university.
You only need the first 2 iso images in the most cases. There is the
list of our default mirrors of ftp.suse.com. But I don't know which of
them have mirrored it.
>
> I'm humoring a modem download right now for the first iso image (~ 25
> hours) - but I'm sure my ISP will drop my connection before it's done.
>
> Are there any sites set up for FTP installs and/or floppy images to
> start the install? I've previously done FTP or NFS installs after booting
> from floppy since I don't have an external CD-rom drive for my Sun
> machine. Also... this would give me a better chance for *incremental* downloads
> - especially since I always do a minimal install to start.
We have a boot floppy for 32bit SPARCs. But I'm not happy with it,
it doesn't seem to work on every 32bit SPARC. There is no ftp
version yet, but you can boot over network with rarp/tftp from
an other SPARC or PC. This is what I always prefer.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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