I really should know better than to reply to this sort of stuff. but..
Quick! before I change my mind! On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:48:58PM -0700, Marlon Ott wrote: > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with > all the bells and whistles. Actually came loaded with > Solaris 8(!) -> Had to argue with SUN for a month to > get a stinkin "9" CD (Gosh thanks McNealy, hope the > 3800.00 covers your CD costs). Entire day spent just > loading Solaris 9... looks better, but is just as > "useless" (UNIX with a GUI -zzzzzzzz), and the piece > of junk reboots on its own now. > > Let's see, Linux is so very hot - who makes it for > SPARC? Out of hundreds of distro's - Only Debian > (thank you)... I actually sent money for the disk set > and waited three weeks. It's always good to support > development, yes? > > Well folks.... too bad I cannot load Debian. From the > support site's "SunBlade 100" string it appears that I > should remove my video card (ROTFLMAO), and type > mystical undocumented commands at the SILO prompt > while praying. And the errors were ?? I cannot find any postings by you. Perhaps you posted the errors under a different name? After all, you wouldn't be upset about the lack of support without asking first, would you? > Outcome? The new CD's are in the trash, the nice $$$ > SUN monitor is now hooked to my reliable W2K Adv > Server box, and the SunBlade is great for holding up > the monitor. > > Sorry Linux geeks... I give up. > > Guess my job? Yup, UNIX sysadmin > > UNIX for Services > Windows for Productivity > Linux for Geeks Beware, the 'Troll' label is difficult to get rid of. -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Elliptic paraboloids for sale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
