Re: Status of Netra X1?
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:20:13AM -0400, mdxi wrote:
> I've been following with some interest the recent thread(s) about the
> porting efforts on the Netra X1.
>
> Over the past week it has become apparent that I'll be getting at least
> one of these boxes in the near future, so I was wondering if someone could
> whip up a very brief summary of the state of Debian on these machines.
AFAIK, everything pretty much works, except for the network card. I'm
not sure what work is being done on that ATM.
> Lastly: I've been reading the serial-console HOWTO, but it seems very PC
> oriented. Is there anything special/different about Suns that I should
> know?
For Sun's, just hook up the serial cables, and start up your terminal
program on the remote side. The Debian installer handles setting up the
rest (and the Sun OBP handles the hardware side).
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