[dundee] Fwd: Open letter from Alan Cox

[Simon Wells]

Martin Habets wrote:

>Simon,
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>What OSs do you run on these? I just bought a sparcstation 20. It is
>running Debian Linux and I'm trying to get sunos on it now.
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>Would people be interested in a demo of a network install? i.e. all the
>daemons and files involved. We saw the initial ARP request when Simon brought
>in a sparc.
>For Debian I used the new sarge installer, but that is not too interesting
>because all you do is press return and wait... (if it works).
>
>Martin
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> --- Simon Wells <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk> wrote: 
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>>We are still identifying topics for a meeting. A notice will probably go 
>>out later on today to advertise. The sparcstations are sitting under my 
>>desk right now next to their new friend, the Sun SPARCserver 670MP that 
>>I obtained recently.
>>Simon
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I have been too busy to get them set up but plan on installing netBSD to 
the SPARCstations. I am not sure about the server but as it has a 
975watt power supply and doesn't supply an awful lot in the way of cpu 
power for that I probably won't actually use it regularly for the 
forseeable future.
Simon