> Just to be clear, the BFU went swimmingly once I knocked myself over the
> head with an idiot stick a few times. The instructions (when actually READ
> and followed) worked perfectly.
>

Thats good to hear !

 [ in order to read this you need to picture a guy wearing a cheap
   plaid suit, a loud tie complete with coffee stain, a cigarette
   hanging out one side of my mouth as I talk and greasy hair in
   a comb over and a really scuzzy french-canadian accent.  ]

To follow your example I am now going to perform a trick that I suspect
no one in their right mind has attempted.  A feat of such daring and
stupidity that few would even consider it.  I, Dennis Clarke, the
great and mysterious masked midnight hacker, will dive into a build
of OpenSolaris, the very latest rev folks, on a Pentium II old PC from
1998 with a 400MHz processor ( two of them actually ) and five, yes I
said five SCSI controllers!  Wild and untamed and barely identified!

I will post pictures and blog the process but suffice it to say that
I want to kill this concept in peoples heads that you have to have
super expensive Sun hardware in order to run "expensive and slow"
Solaris.  *barf* .. *gag* ..  And I know the X2100 is like $2K.

I am sick to death of hearing someone tell me that they can't run
Solaris on their PC hardware because its a Dell or an HP or its this
or that or some other lame excuse.  I still love the one where some
jerk looks at me and says "Solaris doen't run on PC hardware."

So to prove the point I am going to grab the lowest oldest filthy
piece of hardware and rip it apart, then stuff every part I can find
in boxes and bags around me into it, and then build Solaris Nevada
on it.  I said _build_ there.  Not just install.  To "install" would
be just plain lame.  Anybody _can_ do that.

  But to build on this old junker !   Now that will be fun to watch.

  Probably like watching paint dry actually .. but .. I do the dumb
  things so that you don't have to !

Dennis Clarke  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aka: The masked midnight hack

  ps: I don't smoke, never have, and my suit is not off the rack. :-)

_______________________________________________
opensolaris-help mailing list
[email protected]

Reply via email to