[ale] Gentoo on UltraSparc?

[F. Grant Robertson]

I looked at that earlier yesterday and was put off by the fact that it's
RH based (my apologies to redhat fans, no offense intended.. preference
only). Being "sold to" by you made me look at it again. 

I'm going to give Aurora a shot, if only because I don't feel I have the
free time for a true Gentoo experience at the moment... Patience young 
grasshopper.

Thanks to everyone for the input.

-G


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 18:15, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone had any experience with Gentoo (or any other distro) on a Sun
> > UltraSparc? Any suggestions on other distributions? Any good advice on
> > the install process an how it differs from an x86 machine? I'm not
> > entirely new to Sun hardware but, I'm no expert by any stretch. 
> 
> Aurora Linux. Works great, uses RPM like God intended ;-)
> 
> If you're not familiar with it, Aurora <http://www.auroralinux.org/> is an
> unofficial port of Red Hat to the Sparc / Ultrasparc done primarily by a
> group of RH developers. It tends to have the best support of any of the free
> Unixes for Ultrasparc....
> 
> You'll want to do a network install, which will work like setting up a 
> Solaris network boot server (tftpd + rarpd). You can install off of CD, but 
> if you do you'll probably have to use a non-Sun CD -- the Sun CD drives 
> don't like to boot off of home-burned CDs in most cases.
> 
> later,
> chris
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