Hi, I just installed Linux on our Ultra-30. It has no floppy, and besides the boot floppies for Sparc don't seem to work, (tried them on another Sparc and also read a lot about problems with them), so I had to boot it by tftp. That took a while to figure out, but once it got going I was at home in the regular Debian install.
Word of warning - there are problems with the potato XF86 files. After many hours of cussing the machine, I randomly decided to downgrade all XF stuff to slink, and it works fine now. We have a not-too-common video card (Creator 3D), so YMMV. There seems to be a problem mounting Debian/i386 NFS shares. Our /homes are NFS mounted and the Sparc box complains a lot about the NFS connection. I haven't started trying to figure this one out yet. For myself, I'm much happier trying to debug Debian/Sparc problems rather than trying to learn Solaris. -Steve Stancliff
