Karmic for Sparc

[Michael Casadevall]

Well, my goal for Karmic is to have working netboot, server cd, and
alternate cds, although SPARC desktop has a big unsupported on it :-).
(I'm also looking at the same for ia64, which needs kernel tweaking to
get that working). I have some kernel tweaks I wanted to make (for
instance, make the SMP kernel the default kernel and such), but I am
going to have to do it for karmic+1.
Michael

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM, John Cater <katre50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Michael Casadevall
> <mcasadevall at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> SPARC has had some kernel issues recently which should be resolved as
>> of writing, but it is still a community-supported architecture. silo
>> at the moment is broken though causing d-i to FTBFS, and the
>> installation to bomb out, its been on my TODO list to look at this for
>> awhile, but I have no ETA on when that might be.
>>
>
> Thanks. If you need any help testing I'd be happy to make a new VM to try
> something in.
>
>>
>> At the moment, the best way to install is to use a Dapper or Hardy
>> (depending on your machine, I had to use Dapper's installer to get my
>> SunFire to install, but Hardy's installer should work), then upgrade
>> to the desired release. Jaunty's netboot installer may also work, but
>> I haven't personally tested it.
>
> This is what I have been doing. I just tried the Jaunty netboot image, which
> erfuses to start (with a fast trap MMC error I didn't copy). I also tried
> Intrepid, and it will start, but the sunvdc module that comes with it
> appears not to handle the virtual disks in the VM.
>
> Thanks very much,
> katre
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