[parisc-linux] Greetings!

[Damian Boune]

Greetings all,

I am new to the PA-RISC mailing list, and to the PA-RISC world in
general so this is my introduction. I work for the outdoor equipment
manufacturer by the name of Marmot Mountain and am one of two sysadms
who run Marmot's IT department.

We have long run our financial and data systems on misc. *nix based
systems and one of these systems that no longer performs this duty is a
HP E55. Being a junkie I'm naturally trying to find a new job and life
for this little E55. I have not yet done anything much with it yet as
I've been researching just how probable it is that I can put Debian/GNU
Linux on it in some fashion. I still have all the old HPUX software in
case I decide to be masochistic (okok.. so it's not so bad, and having
disk storage don't sound so bad either, but Linux will be more fun
right?  ;)

Right now I am putting together a cross-build environment on an i386 box
so that I may compile a HPPA kernel and I've got bootp and tftp services
ready to go. Looks like getting everything together will be a bit of a
challenge. I'm so used to the i386 world now that I'm royally spoiled by
the Debian package repository. Spoiled and lazy that is. All I can hope
for is that I'm not off my rocker or heading in the wrong direction
entirely.

So, if anyone has some wisdom to impart upon a newbie to the PA-RISC
world, I'll be very grateful, and so will my E55!

Off I go to save the world! It's nice to meet all of you!=20

Damian Boune
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Marmot Mountain Ltd.