Hello!
I have old SPARC-III SUN-server.
I don’t desire to use Solaris, but Linux.
Can openSUSE be installed and work normally on this server?
Am 02.11.2012 10:26, schrieb factorial:
>
> Hello!
> I have old SPARC-III SUN-server.
> I don’t desire to use Solaris, but Linux.
> Can openSUSE be installed and work normally on this server?
>
>
No.
For SPARC you may have luck with debian, check at their page if they
support the special architecture of that machine.
If you are not limited to Linux one of the BSD flavors may be an
alternative.
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On 11/02/2012 10:26 AM, factorial wrote:
> Can openSUSE be installed and work normally on this server?
no, but maybe SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (or one of its cousins
can), check at suse.com
i say maybe because of what i found here: http://tinyurl.com/cj57s7v
hmmmm, it might be best though for you to put an actual SUN server
name/model number in your search (should get you down below 6.8k, and
therefore more usable) hits…
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dd
On Fri 02 Nov 2012 09:26:02 AM CDT, factorial wrote:
Hello!
I have old SPARC-III SUN-server.
I don’t desire to use Solaris, but Linux.
Can openSUSE be installed and work normally on this server?
Hi
A community user is working on it, http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SPARC
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Am 02.11.2012 12:27, schrieb malcolmlewis:
> Hi
> A community user is working on it, http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SPARC
>
Quite interesting, have not seen that, it looks a bit dead - only 11.2
and 11.3.
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On Fri 02 Nov 2012 11:57:08 AM CDT, Martin Helm wrote:
Am 02.11.2012 12:27, schrieb malcolmlewis:
> Hi
> A community user is working on it,
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SPARC
>
Quite interesting, have not seen that, it looks a bit dead - only 11.2
and 11.3.
Hi
Not really (time/contributors maybe?) there was a talk at the conference
the other week about it (Sunday session),
http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule/
I really need to get my SPARC systems out and have a play (I have an
Ultra10, and two SUN Blades (a 100 and a 150)).
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martin_helm, dd, malcolmlewis, thanks for your comments!
Earlier I used only one version Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Server) on HP X86 Server.
Therefore I have very little expirience of utilization of Linux.
As I know RHES is a paid version. And the company which I work can paid it, but I - no.
Because I want to use my SPARC-Server for non-commercial purposes, I’m searching free Linux-version.
If I’m understand correctly, SLES is a paid version also RHES.
I’m exploring Internet and reading about Debian now.
If anybody can advise me other free-versions of Linux for SPARC Servers, it would be very helpfull for me.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS SUNFIRE V240 EN2SA DUAL 1.5GHz 2GB 1x73GB SCSI
SPARK III
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 05:16:01 AM CST, factorial wrote:
martin_helm, dd, malcolmlewis, thanks for your comments!
Earlier I used only one version Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Server) on HP
X86 Server.
Therefore I have very little expirience of utilization of Linux.
As I know RHES is a paid version. And the company which I work can paid
it, but I - no.
Because I want to use my SPARC-Server for non-commercial purposes, I’m
searching free Linux-version.
If I’m understand correctly, SLES is a paid version also RHES.
I’m exploring Internet and reading about Debian now.
If anybody can advise me other free-versions of Linux for SPARC
Servers, it would be very helpfull for me.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS SUNFIRE V240 EN2SA DUAL 1.5GHz 2GB 1x73GB SCSI
SPARK III
Hi
Well you could always give the very obsolete 7.3 version a whirl if you
want to play. Else I would get on the factory mailing list or IRC and
ask about the status;
http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate
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Because I badly understood your latest post, I’m clarifying…
Are you offering me to obtain oldest version of SLES (7.3 for example), which support SPARC-architecture?
And I have to ask this question to opensuse@opensuse.org. Rigth?
On 11/06/2012 06:51 AM, malcolmlewis wrote:
> If anybody can advise me other free-versions of Linux for SPARC
> Servers, it would be very helpfull for me
neither openSUSE nor SUSE/SLES have supported versions of Linux for
SPARC, free or otherwise…sorry…
google is always a friend, and you might have a look here
http://tinyurl.com/cr8y7ca
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dd
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 07:16:01 AM CST, factorial wrote:
malcolmlewis;2501588 Wrote:
> Hi
> Well you could always give the very obsolete 7.3 version a whirl if
> you want to play. Else I would get on the factory mailing list or IRC
> and ask about the status;
> ‘openSUSE:Communication channels - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate)
Because I badly understood your latest post, I’m clarifying…
Are you offering me to obtain oldest version of SLES (7.3 for example),
which support SPARC-architecture?
And I have to ask this question to opensuse@opensuse.org. Rigth?
Hi
I can ask to see if I can get an iso image… it use to live here;
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/7.3/iso/
Yes or no?
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Am 06.11.2012 06:16, schrieb factorial:
> As I know RHES is a paid version. And the company which I work can paid
> it, but I - no.
I really would go for debian here as that actively supports sparc with
its current versions
http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/
this link also contains their corresponding sparc mailing lists.
an older blog post from 2008 (without much details) shows someone
installing on the machine you have had success, so I would put my energy
into that if I were you
http://lithostech.com/2008/09/debian-on-a-sunfire-v240/
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On Tue 06 Nov 2012 07:16:01 AM CST, factorial wrote:
malcolmlewis;2501588 Wrote:
> Hi
> Well you could always give the very obsolete 7.3 version a whirl if
> you want to play. Else I would get on the factory mailing list or IRC
> and ask about the status;
> ‘openSUSE:Communication channels - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate)
Because I badly understood your latest post, I’m clarifying…
Are you offering me to obtain oldest version of SLES (7.3 for example),
which support SPARC-architecture?
And I have to ask this question to opensuse@opensuse.org. Rigth?
Here’s the presentation, worth watching;
OSC12 - openSUSE on SPARC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjGCQ2WI-xM
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I have decided that Debian is the best solution of my “SPARC-task”.
Experienced Debian users confirmed that it normally work on Sunfire v240.
Thank you very much for all!
Am 06.11.2012 23:05, schrieb malcolmlewis:
> Here’s the presentation, worth watching;
> OSC12 - openSUSE on SPARC
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjGCQ2WI-xM
>
Too bad I have no sparc available to play with, thanks for the video link.
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On Wed 07 Nov 2012 04:08:51 AM CST, Martin Helm wrote:
Am 06.11.2012 23:05, schrieb malcolmlewis:
> Here’s the presentation, worth watching;
> OSC12 - openSUSE on SPARC
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjGCQ2WI-xM
>
Too bad I have no sparc available to play with, thanks for the video
link.
Hi
I spoke with my SUSE contacts and by Monday CST there should be some 7.3
cd’s available, they should be there for about a month, so if you want
them, grab them 
md5sum :
e4c4cfc6aa2e0a4480cb1762d62832c4 suse-sparc-7.3-CD1-RC2.iso
9d93399e9f73a77796bc5a9211175987 suse-sparc-7.3-CD2-RC2.iso
297e48d5f22a8ace1af1d111f4f40d11 suse-sparc-7.3-CD3-RC2.iso
1dbfe3f98e958c40990eb6f8fbd16b6f suse-sparc-7.3-CD4-RC2.iso
a8797817c8d7e6d4b8975ffb262e0cd6 suse-sparc-7.3-CD5-RC2.iso
Should be able to download them as:
ftp://ftp.novell.com/outgoing/suse-sparc-7.3-CDx-RC2.iso
Enjoy…
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