Here is the scenario: A teacher at school recently acquired a SparcBook 3 w/ 32 megs of ram and a 520 meg HD (http://www.unixpac.com.au/vendors/tadpole/s3.html)
He was selling it for his friend (His friend works for a big company, when the company upgrades, they give their machines to employees for a good deal) Anyways, apparently the guy who owned it wasnt so smart and corrupted Solaris. Since i dont have the solaris CD nor the CDE, I've decided to trash it and get linux. I bought Redhat 4.0 (or 4.2) SPARC version for 60 dollars, under the impression it would work. I've emailed them and they said to me that it would work on a Sun4m machine, Sparcbooks. (note: they said it WOULD run on a Sparcbook) When i attempted to install Redhat, it would load, but it would error out saying it could not find the proper video driver for my card. I know Debian is getting into the sparc field, but I am curious on if they are going to support Sparcbooks. Im considering either donating this unit or selling it for really cheap. If anyone has any solutions or any information for me i'd greatly appreciated it.... even if it is to laugh at me :) Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
