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KiTaSuMbA Guru
Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Naples Italy
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 7:07 pm Post subject: gentoo server on sparc5? |
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While we are re-organizing our LUG we were offered a sparc5 170Mhz to built our server on. Now, a box given away like that is a Good Thing (TM) but I've seen some mentions to compatibility problems and bugs for linux on the specific model.
So here come the questions:
What should I expect to work and what not?
Which distro (if any) manages to work around these problems and to what extent?
What are the things we should watch out for?
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n0cmonkey n00b
Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 3
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Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Last I heard, Linux had some problems with the 170mhz Ross HyperSPARC processors. One work around was to use a different processor for the install and switch after Linux is installed. |
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