[plug] SubBlade 100

[John Smith]

Hello All.

This is my first post to this list for several years... So be gentle on me.

I have "inherited" a SunBlade 100. It came with a "stuffed" copy of Solaris on it & I want to replace it with a "flavour" of Linux. I've been running RedHat X on another PC for quite some time so I'm comfortable with RedHat however I see that they don't have a recent port for a sparc box.

So without starting the "which Linux is best" war can someone share with me which way to go? I see Debian appears to be reasonably recent but I am open to any suggestions.

I have also seen on Sun's site a comment about the correct version of OpenBoot to load / install Linux. The box I have has ver 4.0. I freely admit to knowing bugger all about the Sun box. I'm still feeling my way around.

I have been trawling around the internet to find out (a) where to get OpenBoot updates (b) How to install OpenBoot updates WITHOUT a working OS (The boot prompt) and (c) Which version of Linux to use and finally how to install it.

Cheers.
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