Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:21:43 +0000 (GMT) From: fmccor <fmccor@patriot.net> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.04.10101081243260.533-100000@asp.inforead.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE on a Voyager?
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 boucli27@altavista.net wrote:
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> > > Has anyone installed on a Sun Voyager or a Tadpole 3 series?
> > > Any gotcha's?
> >
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> For the Tadpole Series 3 AFAIK they do not run Linux.
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For testing purposes, I installed suse-sparc Linux onto an external
disk on a Tadpole SPARCbook 3GX. Linux did not care much for the
display, so for me, at least, there was a lot of guessing about what
YaST1 was trying to highlight during the installation, but I did get an
external 9G disk built which would boot & run Linux on the 3GX. A couple
of things to note:
1) Linux does not know how to drive the 3GX display except as a tty
(no X-support). There was a long discussion about this a year or
so ago in a now defunct SPARCbook discussion list, and at that time
someone either was working on or was providing support for the
3GX chip set for systems other than Solaris, but I do not know the
status of the project. I am not in a position to work on this
because I know nothing about display drivers.
2) In command mode (init 2), the 3GX SuSE Linux 7.0 system seemed to
run fine, but I spent little time with it. Instead, I moved the
disk to a Sparc 5 and reinstalled Linux on it; for whatever reason,
the installer did not like partitions the 3GX had created. It
complained they were noncontiguous, and it was not worth it to
me to figure out what the formatting actually came out as.
(For what it's worth, SuSE SPARC Linux 7.0 installed fine on the SS5, but
I will ask the same question someone else asked a few days ago on this
list: X-support (fvwm2 window manager) feels slower than it does
under RedHat 6.0 (fvwm2) on another external disk (4GB, supposedly
same performance charactistics but different partitioning). This might
be subjective, and otherwise the SuSE system installs more cleanly and
is more complete.
Yes, this is a vote for continued SPARC Linux support from SuSE. (I'll
never like Linux's "/dev/sd[abcd...]" naming convention since I do
like to move disks around, but I don't change their SCSI ID's much.))
-- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@inforead.com> Phone: (703) 392-0303 Fax: (703) 392-0401
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