[TriLUG] HP-UX 11.0 (this is on topic!)

[Andrew Perrin]

I'm pretty sure we did so in my old job (as a grad student I did linux and
solaris admin at UC Berkeley). I can't remember for sure if there were
2's, but we certainly had IPC's, IPXes, Sparc 1, Sparc 1+, and Sparc 5
running linux (redhat, don't remember the version).  If you're interested
I can give you my then-boss's e-mail address -- he could tell you for
sure.

I'll reiterate: I have some old sparc-linux related junk available to
anyone who wants it. The computer you'll have to come pick up, but i can
mail the cd's if anyone wants them:

- Sun Sparc IPX, with a probably-useable debian potato (2.2) installation
on it. Needs a new clock chip (aprox $40) or just to be left on all the
time. Includes keyboard, mouse, and adapter to plug a standard *VGA
monitor into its color framebuffer.
- Debian 2.2r2 (potato) for sparc CD set

Just let me know.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Tom Bryan wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:24 am, Christian J Hedemark wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like it is time to start organizing another installfest.  Even a
> > mini install fest.  Heck even if it was just a get together for all the
> > folks with non-x86 hardware trying to persuade Linux to run that would be
> > cool. 
> 
> I have a SPARCstation 2 (I think...it's not here at the moment) that I'd like 
> to have running Linux.  It is listed as a platform that runs Linux, but the 
> last time I tried an install (when RH used to support SPARC), the installer 
> hung almost immediately.  From http://www.ultralinux.org/, I found that 
> "There are some kernel related memory management problems with sun4c. This is 
> being worked on."  The page still says the same thing...so I suppose that 
> it's not fixed.  Still, I only tried the one Linux distro, and I'd love to 
> give it another try...maybe with debian or SuSE's SPARC distro.
> 
> Has anyone ever run Linux on a SPARCstation 2?
> 
> ---Tom
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