[Aurora-sparc-user] Sparc 20 and ESP module status.

Mr. James W. Laferriere babydr at baby-dragons.com
Sat Oct 6 17:30:38 EDT 2007


 	Hello Chris ,

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Chris Andrew wrote:
> Spot,
> Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately that means I'm going to have to
> try to struggle to get an old version of Gentoo on my SS20.  Debian
> Etch has the same ESP problem, as does Ubuntu.  Next stop is *BSD :-(.
> I have freedom issues with that, but that's off-topic.
> Cheers,
> Chris.
 	For what its worth ,  Aurora 2.0 does install & run so far (Knock on 
wood) pretty much painlessly .  I had to use a network (nfs) install to do it , 
but after that it works .
 	Btw ,  Thank you for the note about doing that .

 		Twyl ,  JimL

ps:	Spot ,  I'll be putting together a report on the attempts to update 2.0 
to 2.99 .

> On 06/10/2007, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 18:33 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Did anyone manage to rectify the ESP module problem.  If you recall,
>>> this was preventing some Sparc boxes from _seeing_ the CD, for the
>>> install.
>>
>> Not yet.
>>
>> ~spot
>>
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