[wplug] Linux on my Sparc Station

[Carl Benedict]

I recently put NetBSD on a Sparc5 in hopes of building a new firewall
from it.  I had some trouble with the SUNW,hme network card.  Other than
that, it was painless ;)  You might want to check these out for Sun PROM
commands, etc.

Has a PDF version of the service manual:
http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ss20/ 

NetBSD has good info on the PROM (check under their PROM section):
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/faq.html

I think everyone else covered the distro/linux question :)

My 2 cents.

Carl Benedict
Pittsburgh Techs
cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com
http://www.pittsburghtechs.com




On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:24, 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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