Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:10:29PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > PARI has been donated three large Enterprise servers; an E6500, and E6000, > and an E5500. I am in process of arranging shipping and pickup, perhaps > as soon as next week. Once delivered, I will be setting these beasts up > and checking them out, building drive bays, etc. > > The idea is to install Aurora and bring it up to 1.92, then see abut the > buildsystem for CentOS SPARC. You're a bit late with this. I am actually already in progress on building CentOS-4/sparc (for real this time :) I am in phase of finaliding build round for 32bit userspace and have all the bits and pieces for 64bit parts too. Even things like Linux netra 2.6.9-15sp.EC #1 SMP Thu Aug 18 04:39:06 EEST 2005 sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux are there, but only tested on one quad-440Mhz netra so far. The plan being to be able to test updated methods from 1.0 or 1.92 instllations to CentOS-4/sparc this weekend. Then start to look those small pieces and anaconda hacking. The plan being ready as of CentOS-4.2 time You'll be perfect test victim as soon as it get all the bits and pieces together in form that i can put those public. > > The 6500 is destined to replace our Ultra 30 e-mail server, and might even > become our webserver as well as a potential buildfarm box for CentOS/SPARC > and/or Aurora. > Builfarms are alwayswelcome. For example i do have problems with heat alone at home when i try to keep enought machines up for my work. remote machines for security fix building are always more than welcomed. So short: Gimme at least one more week? :P -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/