On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 22:10, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 15:47 5/4/2003 -0700, you wrote: > > >A client of mine has asked me to put RH9 on an old > >Sparcstation2 as a test bed for some development > >work. I've looked on ftp.redhat.com and on some of > >the mirrors and found nothing. > > > >Is the sun4c architecture no longer supported by RedHat? > > > >If not, any advice as to other Linux distributions? > > > >OpenBSD is looking like a good option. > > Red Hat only supported the Sparc architecture up through 6.2, due to lack > of popular demand. So you certainly won't find RH9 on a Sparc. > > However, try looking at http://www.auroralinux.org for an alternative. > Aurora Linux is a group of people who have been rebuilding RH 7.3 packages > for sparc and fixing all the concomitant bugs. Aurora has recently released > its "1.0" version, and I have just finished downloading the ISO files... > will try to install in the next week or so, and I expect it to be fine. Thanks for the link, but the machine in question is a Sparcstation2 which is a sun4c machine. The AuroraLinux FAQ list only sun4m and sun4u architectures as being supported. Ray > > If 7.3 is not recent enough, then you need x86 hardware or another OS. > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz > rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >
