[Aurora-sparc-devel] mostly successful install 2.98 on an AXi!

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 18:15 -0700, haroldkarl at juno.com wrote:
> I was so suprised that I actually got Aurora 2.98 installed on a Sun
> computer!!! it
> is a little sketchy-- the HAL daemon doesn't load and the video is a bit
> shaky, it loaded..
> 
> the question now is: what do I have to do to load Aurora on a U80? the
> install dies, saying
> something about not enough memory.... this is on a machine that is
> maxed... 4- 450mhz and 4 gigs
> of ram... do I have to strip 3 processors and 3 gigs of memory to install
> it?
> 
> with Sun charging a king's ransom for a basic subscription for updates
> ($240 per year per "socket")
> it looks like I'll be "recycling" my Sun equipment and go back to
> peecees... 

Sorry I'm so late in replying to this, I've been on vacation for the
last week. You shouldn't have to strip anything off that U80.

Try the install tree and images in:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/aurora/corona/sparc/

~spot