Hi list!
First i have to say sorry for the long posting ;) I'm receiving a used Sparc5 this weekend. So i have a few questions (of which some may be a little offtopic): 2GB SCSI-HD, 32MB-RAM, 2D Gfx card (fast for wireframe, i think), FDD and CD_ROM. I have a bunch of official CD's (including Solaris - or is it really Slowlaris :) - already on this machine. The machine is booting fine, but... The Gfx card seems to be a problem. We tried many different monitors (all of them should've been able to produce a normal screen) - but none of them found any signal to display. Last we tried a monitor with fixed frequency and finally got some output on the screen. The output was scattered as if the Sparc and the monitor were not in sync or generally use and expect different frequencies. Hitting Alt-F(1-8) did change the display a bit and after a few more hits the screen went black and stayed black until reboot. I would like to use the Sparc as a Terminal (and more). But for this i need to 'fix' the problem with the card. If the card is really damaged and gone completely i would like to use the Sparc as a server in the background (maybe for serving X), backup and stuff like that. The first thing for me is to install Debian :) (stable enough?) The second thing may be to install Solaris (pro's, con's, suggestions?) 32MB RAM is not much. I would like to install a minimal System on the Sun and hope that memory will be enough to run without much swapping. Is it illusionary to assume that the Debian base, a bit net, min. X server, and one or two additional daemons, packages will run without much swapping? And then there's the Gfx card. What to do? How to check? Any suggestions? I think i mentioned everything - if not, please ask... Hopefully someone can help in this context, i need this additional piece of hardware for serving :) thanks in advance, Mac -- Markus Lechner (Company - LightWolf) | The Prometheus-Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Markus.Lechner | (only for Project-Team) PGP-Public-Key(s) are available | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null