Hi, sorry for the delay and thanks a lot for the answers. They were slightly overwhelming, I've to say ;-)
I'll try to sort out what I understood (please correct me if I'm wrong): 1) the Free CD is a live CD, not for installation - it is possibly still x86-only (oh well, should it arrive, I could use it on a x86 box, too) 2) for the UltraSparc, it would make sense to get the SXCE DVD or Martin's Martux distro 3) the Martux distro maybe wouldn't work either because the UltraSparc box has to little RAM (the readme says 512MB minimum), and if the boot image is really that huge... 4) Solaris 10 might not work because ZFS and IPS need too much RAM - \me phoning my son who studies informatics (and who gave me the UltraSparc) 'What is ZFS?' 'You know, something like LVM, only better' (but IPS he didn't know either). Will have to research more, I think ;) I had been planning (as I use to do with Linux) to start from a basic minimal system and try adding as much software as possible, but not too much. (I think I read somewhere that you could run the XFCE desktop on Opensolaris, for example.) So I gather ZFS is actually replacing UFS and you cannot choose the latter instead? 5)This UltraSparc5 (as is always the case) of course has the slow 270 MHz CPU. There are 4 DIMMs with 320 MB total RAM (I think 2x32MB and 2x128MB). I have some other registered DIMMs lying around, but these won't fit, being for other machines (did I say this is always the case?). Apart from that there's an ATI PCI graphics adapter (which under Linux's Xorg gives better refresh rates than in Solaris 9), a LSI SCSI controller is installed (didn't hook up anything at it till now) and there's a strange 4-Port Ethernet card. A DVD drive works, tried it, but writing didn't work in Linux due to some strange ioctl32 error. I've hooked the box to the monstrously heavy Sony/Sun Monitor from my old SparcStation, to keep it all within the family. Firewire and USB would be supported? Sounds good. So it seems I will have to download the stuff anyway. This will have to wait some time till I get access to a fast Internet connection. (BTW: this isn't Russia [apart from the mail address], it's Germany. Maybe, in Russia, my Internet connection would be better...) So, I've still got time to sort out which way to go: Martux, SXCE, or try to patch Solaris 9. Greetings, Hartmut -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
