Linux on a Sun Blade 2500?

[Shawn O'Shea]

My experience over the years has been that, although there existing Linux
for Sparc, there is not that great of a developer or support community
around it.

If you just want to reinstall and have a usable Sun system, I would highly
recommend just reinstalling it with a new Solaris install. Solaris is a free
(as in cost) download.Just go here,
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp and get the " Free Solaris 10
10/08 download."

The Hardware Platform Guide says your system is fully supported (
http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6337/chapterHPG.html#BEJFCAEE). The
installation manual is available online,
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-5236?l=en

The Solaris 10 DVD comes with a large amount of the common GNU and other
FOSS software you would expect on a Linux system, in fact the common
graphical interface is the same GNOME environment you find on Ubuntu or
Fedora. Some information about the FOSS software that comes with or is
available from Sun is located here:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/

-Shawn

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Thomas Coughlin
<tcoughlin1234 at comcast.net>wrote:

>   I am trying to find a source to help me get Linux on a Sun Blade 2500 I
> have. I am new to the Linux world, but as far as I can tell it is the only
> software that I can load on a Sun system to use as for things like web
> browsing and so on like on an Intel based PC with Windows on it. I tried
> downloading a version I thought was correct for the Sun Blade 2500 to CD and
> the DVD version. When I boot the pc with the DVD version in the drive and do
> a"stop a" it says "cant locate boot device". and if I type boot CDROM it
> says "bad magic number in disk label Cant open disk label Package. I was
> under the assumption once I loaded the CD or DVD it would start the process.
> I even tried using Partition magic and it wont recognize that. This system
> currently has Solaris and a 3rd party software on it and I just want to wipe
> it clean and load Linux. Can you help? If not sorry to bother you. Thank you
> either way for your time. The software I am trying to load is
> debian-40r6-sparc-CD-1.iso or debian-4.0r6-sparc-DVD-1.iso downloaded form
> the WWW.Linux.org <http://www.Linux.org> site. Also after a "stop a' then
> typing load cdrom/cdrom0 its says it cant locate boot device using either
> version. When I do a boot cdrom with the CD version it reboots but give the
> same Bad magic number message and the the word Evaluating: then cant open
> boot device. HELP!
>
> Tom
>
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