[SPARCbook] Sparcbook S1 OSes

[Ian Spray]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
"Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah at insanetechnology.com> wrote:

> So I may be able to install linux using the 2.0.x kernel on it if I'm 
> really crafty? The little boot menu it gives me when I turn it on seems to 
> be not very friendly about booting other OSes...
>
I've never done anything other than turn on an S1 or S2, and then turn it
off again - that menu is horrid, and I had no interest in learning it. The
Linux 2.0.x kernel is a very slight *possibility*, in that there are
interesting comments in the source code for the kernel.  I've never tried
anything like that - by the time I arrived there were only two S2's in use
(one network CD writer and one DNS server), and they have long since been
retired.

Anyone who has ever joined a programming project after the main coders
have left will attest to the joy of trusting comments in source code :)

> Thanks so much - it's cool to have somebody on the list who actually works 
> for Tadpole :)
>
Thanks, but that's perhaps a bit misplaced - the single most useful item
of advice I can recall giving is that the little hole next to the LCD
status display on an S3/S3000/P1000/N40 is not a reset button but the
microphone, and jabbing it with a paperclip is not a good idea...

TTFN,

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Ian Spray          :  Software Engineer     :  Tadpole Technology
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