[ILUG] Re: linux on sparc

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Lars Hecking (lhecking at nmrc.ie):
> Rick Moen writes:

>> Using the Official Debian 3.0r0 Disk 1-NONUS disc I built using
>> jigdo-lite (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/), that problem
>> was not present, so I'm guessing they fixed it.  We did an install on
>> some rather pokey UltraSPARC box; a SPARC10 or something.
> 
>  Bzzt. The SPARC 10 is a sun4m machine, not sun4u.

Well, that certainly _would_ account for it being pokey, but it wasn't my
machine and -- to reiterate -- I don't really know for sure what model
it was.  (Perhaps you failed to notice the phrase "or something".)  I
said it was an UltraSPARC on the basis of its owner so stating.

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