Re: [ILUG] linux on sparc?

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Sat 21 Sep 2002 - 00:13:03 IST


Quoting Matthew French (mfrench42 at domain yahoo.co.uk):

> One thing to watch out for: there is a bug with Debian 3.0r0. There is a
> typo on the boot CD (it tries to call a loader with the name "sparc64" when
> it is supposed to be "Sparc64" - or something.) It is simple enough to work
> around, and only affects the installation process.

Using the Official Debian 3.0r0 Disk 1-NONUS disc I built using
jigdo-lite (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/), that problem
was not present, so I'm guessing they fixed it. We did an install on
some rather pokey UltraSPARC box; a SPARC10 or something.

-- 
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Rick Moen
rick at domain linuxmafia.com


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