netscape/communicator

2000-01-23 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I would like to run netscape, communicator, or mozilla on a sparc. I saw in the archive that someone else could not find the debs. Have they been removed for good? Also, I would like to run java applets. I've tried apt-get install netscape, apt-get install communicator, but it didn't

more problems netbooting

2000-01-23 Thread ferret
Basically I can't get a kernel to mount root NFS. I converted the 2.2.1 kernel in the slink bootdisks to a.out and booted that, then I tried the kernels in the 2000-01-15 potato floppy test, and no go. AFAIK (and what I've been told previously on this list) my PROM boot arguments are correct. ok

Re: Potato readiness ?

2000-01-23 Thread Ben Collins
Personally I don't think any of these really constitute whether sparc is release ready. They are package specific and not really related to sparc. On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:35:27PM +0900, Ragga Muffin wrote: > > Hi all, > > A coupla days ago I successfully installed debian on a sparc 5 and I'm

Potato readiness ?

2000-01-23 Thread Ragga Muffin
Hi all, A coupla days ago I successfully installed debian on a sparc 5 and I'm left wondering about the status of debian-sparc vs the potato freeze. I understand that sparc support was added in slink so it's still in it's infancy I guess. But I wonder if sparc-potato will be ready with the other