Quoth Max K.:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > I going to put a hand on used Ultra 5 Mechine.
> >
> > How good is it considering the new i386 hardware avilable today ( p4,
> > Athlon ) ?
Depends on the CPU MHz. The 270MHz is roughly equivalent to a PII-266.
No more. Don't expect science fiction ;-) from it. It's disk subsystem
is woeful (slow IDE), its graphics (unless it has a UPA card) is very
slow likewise.
> it is not p4/athlon - this is another type of cpu,
> and it's many years old.
The CPU is an UltraSPARC-IIi, IIRC.
> > Can I install linux on it easy as on any other i386 ?
Yes. It uses a somewhat different boot architecture, but afterwards it
is a nice Linux machine.
> yes, but make sure u read the notes about the
> fdsik and partitioning it - there's some things u should know.
> after the installation, it's a linux box, of course :-)
Partitioning is hybrid - part Linux (which is MS-DOS based ;-) and part
Sun (BSD-based ;-). E.g. you have partition 4 covering the whole disk
a-la:
ex:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19883 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 0 60 30240 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 u 60 2140 1048320 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 0 19883 10021032 5 Whole disk
/dev/hda4 2140 19883 8942472 83 Linux native
Personally, I like the little machines (I used to have three suns, but I
lent two to friends) but they're quite slow by today's standards.
Marc
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