On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Vic wrote:
>
>> No. However, you can use CentOS.
>
> No I can't.
>
> The CentOS developers convinced me many years ago that they are not the
> sort of people I want to deal with. The trust relationship necessary with
> a distribution supplier is badly broken.
Doe
--- On Wed, 18/2/09, Isaac Close wrote:
> From: Isaac Close
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Anyone played with Aurora Linux?
> To: l...@beer.org.uk
> Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 2:49 PM
> --- On Wed, 18/2/09, Vic wrote:
>
> >
> > I think I might actuall
> No. However, you can use CentOS.
No I can't.
The CentOS developers convinced me many years ago that they are not the
sort of people I want to deal with. The trust relationship necessary with
a distribution supplier is badly broken.
And I'll day no more about that. My reasoning is archived in
Hi,
> I think I might actually just get it running with the Solaris installation
> it came with. Aurora just isn't stable enough on this hardware
No. However, you can use CentOS. As long as you have more than 196M,
it will install fine.
http://sparc.centos.org
Currently this is 5.1, and the up
> If your booting from cdrom, did you burn the iso at 4 speed ?
>
> Its a sun thing, but it can cause what seem to be totally unrelated
> errors.
Not sure that's the problem. I abandoned v2.99, and tried v2.0. It
installs perfectly.
It looks rather like v2.99 hasn't been tested on a box this chee
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -, Vic wrote:
> I'm trying to bring some of my old Sparcs into operation. I'm having
> trouble gett Aurora onto an Ultra 10 - it complains of being "unable to
> find any devices of the type needed from this installation type".
I haven't used Aurora (all of my
Hi,
I saw a similar issue with Gentoo on my laptop because the supplied kernel
didn't have the correct drivers needed to access the DVD drive. The solution
there was to roll your own kernel with the correct driver on another machine
then rebuild the install media. I just couldn't be bothered.
Hi All.
I'm trying to bring some of my old Sparcs into operation. I'm having
trouble gett Aurora onto an Ultra 10 - it complains of being "unable to
find any devices of the type needed from this installation type".
Anyone seen this before?
Thanks!
Vic.
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