Michael Worsham wrote:
Long ago, there was a CentOS build for Sparc under version 4.2 Beta. I checked for the torrents for either the DVD and CD binary or source isos, but no one is seeding that anymore as well. The old Sparc 4.2 beta repo was found here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/ ... but that doesn't have enough information to even attempt a netinstall or a tftp/rarpd boot/install.
Then just recently, I saw this CentOS announcement/post:
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. [...] Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release to Beta first, and then to Final."
Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html
So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x?
There is a very alpha release here:
However, the code base and gcc/glibc (even for c5) is old and not so stable for sparc.
That is based on 5.1 code ... I will be trying to build for 5.2 soon