On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 04:45:52PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Irvin Probst wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 21:55, Niall Parker wrote: > > > > > > Unfortunately the system hangs after the "Booting Linux ..." prompt, no > > > further messages. > > > > IPX are sun4c, so you should read what I wrote about Debian on SS2 > > (http://www.irvinig.org/ss2.html). > > Bye > > Thanks for the pointer ... after some more fiddling I had gotten the > linux-a.out kernel booting with the root supposedly via NFS, but I lacked > the appropriate OpenProm command line (I assumed the kernel could figure > out the NFS stuff via DHCP, but that wasn't the case) > > In the mean time though, after being forced to rely on my floppy, I gave it > another vacuum and managed to boot the system that way ... ;-) > > Now that I have it installed though it seems to need a major performance > tuneup ... I can't believe I once used one of these machines as my daily > workstation ! (was SunOS that much quicker ?)
Dude. Expectations. Think about how much code [crap?] has been added to OSes and apps since them daze. Why do you think 16MB was somewhat reasonable back then? Try to think back about a couple of things: 10BT networking seemed *sweet* as opposed to 'hey -- the network is down!'; 5MB/sec external vacuums ~:^) were awesome because you could add a huge 500MB disk -- man, space for all the source for several different SunOS releasesa; one did not run cscope unless you *absolutely had to*. a
