Re: debian and sparc...
On Sun 01 Feb 1998, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 04:22:23PM +0100, Marcus Riska wrote:
> > Its a simple question...
> > When is sparc debian planned to be released? what is the current status of
> > the project?
>
> It may be ready within one or two months... we even may have
> it available when Debian 2.0 is released.
>
> The kernel works ok, the glibc is beginning to stabilize, and
> we already have lots of packages. The main lack is the install disks,
> but some people are working on it.
It would be very cool if the to-be-made install cdrom was bootable, like
the Red Hat SPARC cdrom is. I don't think that it's too difficult to do
(just look at how RH did it).
Paul Slootman
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