Re: New to the game
>I work at the University of New Orleans Department of Computer Science.
>We recently recieved 3 670MP and two 470 SparcServers as a donation.
>Since we are unable to run the current versions of Solaris on them and
>we have very little interest in SunOS, we are looking into the
>possibility of running Linux on these boxes (there is some very cool
>distributed apps out there). At this point, I have been told that linux
>will not run on these boxes. I am therefore looking for sources of
>information and research on running linux on these boxes. Thanks in
>advanced!!
First off, you can run Solaris 2.5.1 (and probably later if you beat them
up a bit) on the 670's. Linux should also run on the 670's, however there
are no drivers for the VMEbus, so anything you have on the VME will be
unusable from Linux.
The 470's are are a bit tougher (you're stuck with 2.4 if you want Solaris).
There are people working on a sun4 port (and it's running on the 300-series)
you should talk to sparc@vger.rutgers.edu, there have been some sun4
discussions there in the last few days. (Once there is a kernel to boot
the 400-series, the Debian Sparc port should work just fine on them.)
Regards,
/Anders
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