Re: Good Debian-based distro
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:51:36PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
>
> >Sure portability sounds nice, but what is a "hppa", anyway? How many
> >users still run sparcs? Why should I as a user have to
>
>
> I put Debian on a SunBlade 150 last year. This week I plan to attempt to
> put it on four SunBlade 2000s for a university computer lab. I've also
> got it on my Macintosh G4. And I'm very glad Debian is ported to these
> archs, and that Debian on these archs works pretty much like it does on
> i386.
Go Kent! I tried to boot a disk I created from the sparc-floppies on a
computer which a fellow student had severely crashed and for which the
tech people didn't have time to reinstall. Didn't work out, :-( It was
an Ultra 5. What installer/branch did you use?
David
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