Well, if you ever do get another hard drive, the only OS I could find instructions on installing with no CD and no floppy was OpenBSD, I believe. It crashed like mad, but I think there's something wrong with my sun hardware. But if you don't have a floppy and need any help loading something onto that machine using rarp and bootparamd and all of that kind of stuff, I can probably remember.
-Eric Hattemer ----- Original Message ----- From: "MonMotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [luau] SparcStation IPX > > > Dan George wrote: > > MonMotha wrote: > > > >> al plant wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Hi Mon, > >>> > >>> You might try Solaris 8 ( It is given away free.) or what about FreeBSD > >>> I have got that to run on all kinds of boxes. I use FreeBSD 4.5 which is > >>> stable. > >> > >> > >> > >> I don't think Solaris 8 will run on it (and I thought it was only free > >> for x86?). Even if it would, it would be hellishly slow (only a 40MHz > >> proc after all). I personally don't like FreeBSD, but I'm OK with the > >> other BSDs. > >> > >> Anyway, it turns out that the 2.1GB HDD is physically bad (it does > >> sound like an angle grinder after all...), so I'll have to put the old > >> 400MB one back in for now, and I want to keep RH5.2 on it. Anyway, RH > >> should at least run better with 52MB of RAM instead of 16. > >> > >> --MonMotha > >> > >> > > When your talking about Solaris 8 or FreeBSD 4.5, what is the real > > practical purpose of learning to use those when they are so outdated? It > > must just be a hobby and not for learning > > to use for business. > > > > Old hardware exists. Old installations exist. There's plenty of people > using FreeBSD 4.5 or Solaris 8. They need support; they need people who > know how those operating systems work. Besides, do you think I'm doing > anythign serious with a SparcStation IPX that currently has no OS on it? :) > > (yes, it's a hobby, everything I do is a hobby as I have no job) > > --MonMotha > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > >
