Oki DZ wrote: > > Ben Collins wrote: > > IMO, the Debian install is a lot simpler. As I said Debian supports what the > > kernel supports, which is any sun4c, sun4m, and sun4d (we also support > > sun4u, > > ultrasparc, with the proper kernel). SPARC Classic is a sun4c, the same cpu > > Excellent, so basically I can install Debian on my Sun. > BTW, uname -a says that the machine is sun4m; what kind of Sun is that?
There is a sun hardware faq maintained by James Birdsall, try searching for it; google pointed me to http://www.aball.de/~wpv/sun/faq/hwref0.html but this might be a mirror. From this faq I found out quite a lot about my sparcstation2 without even opening the box. Andrew