Re: porting Linux onto HP-PA workstations

["Andrew Basterfield" <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Barber <patrick [at] planet-net.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 4:06 PM
Subject: porting Linux onto HP-PA workstations


> I have recently acquired a HP9000 715/100XC PA RISC workstation, with
256Mb
> memory the only problem with it is that it currently has a corrupt version
> of HP-UX10.20(too expensive to get components).

Wow! Nice toy. Have you considered trying NetBSD/hp300? It's free and it
should keep you going for a few months/years until the linux port is a
little more useable.

--
If you can't do it well - learn to enjoy doing it badly

Andrew Basterfield
MEng Electronic & Communication Engineering Undergraduate
The University of Sheffield, England
Tel. 0114 222 9999 ex. 53198


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