Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:26:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott A Micciche <scottmicciche@sbcglobal.net> Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204180724440.25720-100000@phobos.moons.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] linux newbie and sparc
I can suggest making sure that disk labels are on all your disks, which
can be done with solaris's "format" utility really quickly during an
interrupted solaris installation. SuSE is the finest distribution for
sparc32 or sparc64. You should have not problems. I would also suggest
choosing a lighweight windowing environment like fvwm, blackbox or
windowmaker instead or the kde or gnome environments as they require
copious amounts of ram to remain workable. YOu will enjoy many apps for
linux/sparc on your '20. It will make a fine email/web/MySQL server.
Good luck.
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, John Sidoti wrote:
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:40:56 -0500
> From: John Sidoti <John.Sidoti@marquette.edu>
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-sparc] linux newbie and sparc
>
> Morning folks...
>
> I've recently picked up a SparcStation 20 (actually I found it buried in
> the basement of my office and my boss said I could take it home) and I
> figured it would make a good linux box for me to toy with.
> As far as I can tell it's a single processor machine with 128 meg of ram 2
> internal 1 gig drives and a 2 gig external drive, internal CD and floppy...
>
> After looking at the Sparc dist available it looked like Suse would be the
> bes to use if for nothing else because of this mailing list.
>
> I've been fighting with the Suse installer trying to get my partitions
> setup right...
> does anyone have a recommendation for someone just starting out?
>
> My thanks
>
> John Sidoti
>
>
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