Linux on multiple hardware platforms

BobRobertson · 03-15-2003, 11:52 PM

Success story: Debian on a 386-33 and AMD-K6 laptop and a SPARC20, all running the same packages, interacting perfectly. This is a success story all by itself!

martianpenguin · 03-17-2003, 08:40 PM

did you install it with floppies or with cd rom and do they have Graphical Interfaces?

i have a similar laptop that im trying to get working

BobRobertson · 03-18-2003, 12:19 AM

The 386-33 was on floppies in 1996, the laptop and SPARC were from CD-Rom.

When I install Debian, I choose to do it with the text based interface. I find it the most universally successful, since on the SPARC I was using the serial console without even a keyboard or screen attached to the machine. The text install is interactive, selecting from menus and lists rather than having to know all the options ahead of time.

Bob-