Re: Good Debian-based distro

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

David Fokkema wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:51:36PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>  
>
> > 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
>  

It's been a year, so my memory is hazy, but I probably started with 
Potato (or whatever was stable then) and then upgraded to Sid. I never 
could boot off of local media; I resorted to a tftp boot which worked 
dandy, and which I'll have to again do with the 2Ks.

--
Kent