On 7/31/07, Rami Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Nadav, > > >What binary distribution has the best support for Sun machines? > > The first distribution which was equipped with support for Sun SPARC64 > is Ubuntu; this happened after some attempts to boot Fedora Core (by > Dave Miller and others) failed giving panic. > > This of course does not imply the Ubuntu is the best one , but it is > the most veteran > in this field. So I suggest you try it (you can try Ubuntu live-cd > first to see what are the results).
That's a very dangerous statement - I've installed at least 3 linux distros on my 64-bit ultra5 years before Ubuntu was created. Granted, one of them was debian :-) >but after boot the keyboard stops working (It only has USB > >keyboard&mouse). > > to make sure this keyboard is identified please > try : "tail -f /var/log/messages", and then > unplug the USB keyboard and plug it back in. Do you see any messages ? > > Regards, > Rami Rosen > > > > > > > On 7/26/07, Nadav Shemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. I have a Sun Ultra 45 and I've tried (unsuccessfully) to install > > some kind of Linux distribution on it. > > I've tried Debian netinst (both stable and testing) and Gentoo (stage2) > > CDs, but after boot the keyboard stops working (It only has USB > > keyboard&mouse). > > Booting from the serial console, It hangs with the following message: > > su: Cannot register IRQ 1 > > > > Has anyone had any luck with this particular machine? > > What binary distribution has the best support for Sun machines? > > Can anyone help me? > > > > Nadav Shemer > > Tehuti Networks > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
