Re: Good Debian-based distro
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:03:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> 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.
My problem exactly. It's a pity I don't have control over a tftp server.
Anyway, the machine is reinstalled by now and I won't be able to touch
it again in the sense of installing debian, :-/
David
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