Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....
What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with
all the bells and whistles. Actually came loaded with
Solaris 8(!) -> Had to argue with SUN for a month to
get a stinkin "9" CD (Gosh thanks McNealy, hope the
3800.00 covers your CD costs). Entire day spent just
loading Solaris 9... looks better, but is just as
"useless" (UNIX with a GUI -zzzzzzzz), and the piece
of junk reboots on its own now.
Let's see, Linux is so very hot - who makes it for
SPARC? Out of hundreds of distro's - Only Debian
(thank you)... I actually sent money for the disk set
and waited three weeks. It's always good to support
development, yes?
Well folks.... too bad I cannot load Debian. From the
support site's "SunBlade 100" string it appears that I
should remove my video card (ROTFLMAO), and type
mystical undocumented commands at the SILO prompt
while praying.
Outcome? The new CD's are in the trash, the nice $$$
SUN monitor is now hooked to my reliable W2K Adv
Server box, and the SunBlade is great for holding up
the monitor.
Sorry Linux geeks... I give up.
Guess my job? Yup, UNIX sysadmin
UNIX for Services
Windows for Productivity
Linux for Geeks
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