{"id":2374,"date":"2018-08-08T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2018-08-08T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T19:03:52","slug":"pa-risc-back-to-the-future-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"PA-RISC – Back to the Future (Again..)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my quest to test Linux on more obscure\/historical hardware, and given that the theme was ‘HP’ after my perilous foray into the world of Linux on IA64, I have now acquired (eBay!) an ‘inexpensive’ PA-RISC system – HP 9000\/785 C3700<\/strong> – after upgrading from an older C3000, and adding some more up-to-date IO cards..<\/p>\n

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The system shows its age, by only having 10\/100 (DEC!) Ethernet built-in, and USB1.1 connectors for just a mouse and keyboard, and has mixed PCI\/PCIX card slots – and a floppy drive!.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, there are inexpensive HP PCIX Gigabit Ethernet cards available, and I installed one of these (NC7771), together with a ‘proper’ USB2 card (Belkin). I also beefed up the memory to 4GB, but this may well have been overkill, as I later discovered…<\/p>\n

There are two Distros available for PA-RISC, and after my struggles with Gentoo on the IA64 system, I decided (from over 20 years with Red Hat \/ Fedora!) on the lesser-of-two-evils, and installed Debian. The ‘standard’ Debian release was quite ancient – with a 3.16 Kernel – but fortunately there is an up-to-date ‘development’ version available, with Kernel 4.17 etc…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This may be ‘interesting’ for my IA64 project as well, as it appears that Debian have started to produce a similarly up-to-date version for IA64 as well, after many years!<\/p>\n

My goal for this project, as usual, is to be able to use this as another more ‘interesting’ testing platform for the latest kernel versions, for the least expense!<\/p>\n

More on my tribulations with the actual Linux installation, and configuration, in a later article…<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon. August 8, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of my quest to test Linux on more obscure\/historical hardware, and given that the theme was ‘HP’ after my perilous foray into the world of Linux on IA64, I have now acquired (eBay!) an ‘inexpensive’ PA-RISC system – HP 9000\/785 C3700 – after upgrading from an older C3000, and adding some more up-to-date IO cards.. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1942,11,1298,1943,15,19,1941,1948],"tags":[1950,133,1301,194,468,242,1949,381],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-hacks","category-hardware","category-hppa","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-pa-risc","category-upgrades","tag-c3700","tag-debian","tag-hardware","tag-hp9000","tag-install","tag-linux","tag-pa-risc","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}