2010/2/18 Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>: > On Thursday 18 February 2010 05:21:16 Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> 2010/2/17 Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>: >> qemu-sparc can decently run debian-40r8: gcc and all the other stuff >> seem to work. >> >> Most versions of the NetBSD boot. Some require the original OBP >> though. The only known to me version which definetely doesn't boot is >> 3.0.2. >> >> Also since the last dma fix Solaris 2.4-2.5.1 seems to be also fully >> functional. Don't have a suitable compiler to check whether it's >> working under Solaris though. >> >> Debian-40r8 should have all the necessary stuff to build the uClibc >> toolchain, right? > > I'm happy to boot it under the emulator and poke around. Do you have a URL to > the install ISO you tried?
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r8/sparc/iso-dvd/ Is just a link from the official Etch docu: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/ > > A quick google found: > > http://mirror.leaseweb.com/debian-cdimage/archive/4.0_r8/sparc/iso-cd/ > > Which has a 19-part iso image install. *boggle* (Reminds me of installing > OS/2 from floppies...) Yea. While installing OS/2 2.x it's multitasking was handy: Only ~3 first floppies where actually needed, all the other ones could be written from the images in a process parallel to the installation. > > Possibly the "netinst" one...? Right, I'll give it a whirl. Check here: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/ -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/
