On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:04, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Raymond Lillard wrote: > > Dear Shrike-list, > > > > At the risk of showing the bad taste of replying to my > > own post, and upon further googling, I found the following > > link which answers my original question regarding the > > availability of RH9 on sparc. > > > > Ans. I ain't happening. > > It won't be easy any way. > An it probably won't be very usable. > > Grab the last Sparc release (RHL-6.2) and install it. > Then get the rpm updates for rpm-4. > > Not you can start building the packages for 7.x for the SRPMS. > Most still have sparc option in the spec files, though it might take > some tweaks. > > Once you have 7.x up, you can do the same for 8.0 and 9. > > I'd stick with a minimal system with devel tools at least untill you > have the base for RHL-9 (kernel, glibc, gcc). Then you can start adding > extras. GNOME and KDE will be too slow to use, but X with fvwm, or mwm > is reasonable. Also GNOME and KDE don't do well on 8bit framebuffers either. My god man, what did I ever do to you to deserve such punishment!! > I ran RHL-6.2 on a sparc20, and it was rough. Dog slow, and the 8bit > framebuffer was unbearable. That's odd. I remember back in the day, using a Sparc20 with Solaris and a full X environment. The machine was downright snappy. Seriously, this machine is intended to test a networked application and will be run headless, i.e. no access other than serial console and rsh. I'm hoping I might be able to find an old Solaris v2.[56] CDROM somewhere and install that. Thanks to all, Ray
