Re: [Lug-Nuts] sparcbook

From: Sean-Paul Rees (sean@dreamfire.net)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 15:33:57 PST


Michael Long wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> My work just retired an old sparcbook (sparc laptop). It's running
> solaris2.4 but I'm wondering if I can get linux running on it :) Any
> ideas? It's a sparcbook3 with 64 megs of ram. Any details would be
> helpful.
>
> Michael
>
> The only thing I like about working for my company is all the free shit I
> get :)

I have a Sparcbook 3GS. I successfully netbooted Debian 2.2/sparc onto
it. The easiest way I think is to setup a Unix box to netboot (Rarp) the
sparcbook and NFS install Deb.

Then again, you can install Solaris 2.6 on it, like I did with mine :)

Cheers,
Sean



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