[wplug] Linux on my Sparc Station

Joseph Greenawlt jgreenawalt at adelphia.net
Tue Jan 13 14:52:03 EST 2004


Teodorski, Chris wrote:

> I have an old Sun Sparc Station (I think it's a Sparc 20).   I 
> initially bought it to learn Solaris, but I'd like to install some 
> flavor of Linux on it now to use as an FTP server. 
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> Can anyone recommend a Sparc friendly distro?     Has anyone had any 
> experience getting this up and running?  Good or bad.
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> Thanks,
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> Chris   
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I got gentoo to run on the sparc, they (http://www.gentoo.org/) have 
some detailed install instructions as well.  I never got gnome to work, 
but didn't try that hard.  If you are just using it as an ftp server 
that might be the way to go.

Joe

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