> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> 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!
>
> You're mad, I tell you, absolutely mad! By the time that PII has finished
> building build 41, build 61 will be available! :-)
Well actually .. I am going to take a wild guess at about 36 hours to build.
Maybe more. But not much more.
I want to push this well out there into the realms of really really mind
boggingly stupid configurations :
$ su -
Password:
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_38 October 2007
#
# format -e
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 1103 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci9004,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
1. c2t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 4425 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci1011,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1000,[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
2. c3t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 4424 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci1011,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1000,[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
3. c4t0d0 <SEAGATE-ST39102LW-8320 cyl 6921 alt 2 hd 12 sec 214>
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci9004,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
4. c5t5d0 <DEFAULT cyl 953 alt 2 hd 128 sec 32>
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci9004,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
Specify disk (enter its number): 4
selecting c5t5d0
[disk formatted]
FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
fdisk - run the fdisk program
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show vendor, product and revision
scsi - independent SCSI mode selects
cache - enable, disable or query SCSI disk cache
volname - set 8-character volume name
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
format> inq
Vendor: HP
Product: C3010
Revision: 0BA4
format> curr
Current Disk = c5t5d0
<DEFAULT cyl 953 alt 2 hd 128 sec 32>
/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci9004,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
Now go and look up the HP C3010 disk drive and figure out what it _actually_
is. I am going to slam a ZFS filesystem on it, with compression turned on
and then use THAT as my filesystem to build Solaris Nevada with!
My secondary objective here .. besides grinding a LOT of bits into that old
drive and testing ZFS with un-dreamt off stupid possibilities, is to get an
entry in HGTTG ( "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" ) that reads like so :
Dennis Clarke, n., a person, place or thing that should never be
allowed to configure a personal computer,
mostly harmless.
>> 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"
>
> A fine idea. I get many looks of surprise when I fire up Solaris on
> my laptop...
geez .. like what century are they living in ? I have been running
Solaris on x86 since .. geez .. what? 1997 or so ?
As you know only too well I have Solaris 2.5.1 for x86 running here,
still, just for a lark.
>> Solaris. *barf* .. *gag* .. And I know the X2100 is like $2K.
>
> ... and starts at half that.
Actually yeah .. but I want the second disk.
>> ps: I don't smoke, never have, and my suit is not off the rack. :-)
>
> I've seen the photo. Keep it on the rack. :-)
oh paaleez .. its a nice suit. really ...
if you can get me to clean up long enough to wear it !
Dennis
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