On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fa...@fajar.net> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Gaylard <a...@computer.org> wrote: >> I have an Ultra-60 (2x400MHz CPUs, 2 GiB RAM, elite-3D graphics) >> and I'm keen to install OpenSolaris. There are three wrinkles: >> >> - the box only has a CDROM, not a DVDROM >> - my OBP is 3.31. That means that AI images won't work, right? >> - I don't have any other Solaris boxen, so jumpstarting is tricky >> (impossible?) > > Just one question: have you tried to use solaris 10 with zfs root on > this system? > If no, I suggest you do. That would at least give some idea as to how > 400-MHz CPUs perform with zfs root. I've been using a T2000 (16 core > @1GHz, I believe) and even that seems sluggish when compared to x86 > servers.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of this. Is the slowness due to the checksumming of every disk-block? If so, is there a way to turn it off, and still keep the other benefits of ZFS, without having to resort to UFS? > If you goal is to learn about Opensolaris, x86 servers (or laptop) > would probably be a better place. If your goal is to resurrect this > box you might have better performance with Solaris 10 or SXCE using > ufs root, or even Linux. > > That being said, as Jan mentioned installing opensolaris on that box > won't be easy. If you have other Sun sparc boxes it might be possible > to clone an existing installation manually. Thanks to all who replied. I'll give SXCE a try, and see how it goes. Andrew. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
