Thanks to all that replied.
I am now happily, if a little slowly, getting debian working on my Sun SparcStation 2, SparcStation 5 and SparcServer 20.
I never thought I would be breathing life into these beasties again. Amazingly, they still work after all these years.
Many thanks once again.
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: 06 October 2005 21:47 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Sun Machines
"Peter Bassill" peter.bassill@starliteassociates.com
Something a bit more interesting to discuss, does anyone have any
ideas
on getting Linux onto an old Sun Sparc 2 workstation? I have gentoo working on my Ultra 60 but cant find any linux for non-ultra sparc machines. Any ideas?
Does Sun Sparc 2 workstation = SPARCstation 2?
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_2_1 suggests that's a sun4c system similar to the "pizzabox" SPARCstation that I installed debian onto some years ago (sun5.mth.uea.ac.uk I think, which might have been the one killed in a power supply overheat that nearly melted the monitor stand... messy). I'd start at http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/
Good luck!