RE: Hello

[Nicolas Will <nwill@houston.sns.slb.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Collins
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:55:44PM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> > Im new and probably stupid so please be patient :-) I also cant spell,
> > so pleas forgive !
> >
> > I'm not a troll - and im not after a fight, I just wanted to share with
> > people my experience of installing Debian on sparc while it was still
> > fresh in my mind !   Its a long rambling account - sorry ! I just offer
> > it as feedback for the people in charge :-)
>
> I hate to say this, but it seems like 90% of the "problems" you had
> would have been answered in the install docs.

First install of Debian ever was on a Sun.

I was very familiar with Solaris, though.

But I used the install docs, and it went like a breeze, terminal and X and
all...

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install

As far as released versions, you may want to check Debian's release
methods...stable, testing and unstable. That should tell you a few things
about the old versions thing, there are very good reasons to that.

And about kernel compiles...
Have you ever configured an x86 kernel? If yes, the limited number of
options sor the Sparc architecture should make you confortable.

Nico