Hi Christian, Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 12:19 schrieb Christian Herzyk: > Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2003 20:15 schrieb Wojciech Potentas: > >> Hej fellows! Do anybody use any RISC processors? > >>Just curious :] > > > >I have one in a HP Apollo 715/50. It has a 50MHz Pa-Risc CPU, 64MB Ram and > >2*1GB Harddiscs. The (I think it is) network port looks a bit like a > >gameport. Unusable for me, I think. It was a present from a friend of > > mine, so I have not much information about this box. Actually it is > > running some ancient version of HP-UX. In some time I will try to install > > Gentoo or, at least, some other Linux on it. But no idea, where to start, > > as I have no piece of documentation for it :-( > > Hello Michael, > > a friend of mine installed Gentoo on a 715/75 and it is running quite > well now. The main problem was diskspace when compiling X. Oh yes and it > takes quite some time :-))
That's good news :-)) If someone else succeeded in installing Gentoo on it, I think, I have a chance doing so, too. > The strange network port is called AUI and it will really be quite > unusable unless you use a twisted pair network (for that you can get > converters). Many thanks, now I have an idea what to google for :-) Nice to hear there are converters. > The only alternative to Gentoo is Debian at the moment. > You can find some docu about HPPA on the Gentoo website, but get the > other RISC docus too because I think they relate to these someplace. > > Christian Thanks for the info, Greetings Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
