Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On May 16, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On 5/16/22 04:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi Dennis! >> On 5/16/22 03:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: The last update released for 11.3 is called "Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0"

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/16/22 04:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Dennis! On 5/16/22 03:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: The last update released for 11.3 is called "Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0" and can be found on some torrent sites. I have 11.3 but need an Oracle

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dennis! On 5/16/22 03:58, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> The last update released for 11.3 is called >> >> "Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0" >> >> and can be found on some torrent sites. >> > > I have 11.3 but need an Oracle contract to get much of anything done.

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-16 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Frank Scheiner a écrit : > Hi Betrand, Dennis, > > On 13.05.22 17:32, BERTRAND Joël wrote: >> Dennis Clarke a écrit : >>> Thus with 64G of ECC memory and four very expensive 15k rpm SAS disks >>> the thing is a brick.  Or is it ? >>> >>> Is there any reasonable way to : >>> >>> >>> [A]

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/15/22 18:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 5/16/22 00:15, Chris Quayle wrote: It is a damn good machine. However it can *only* run Solaris 10 or maybe Solaris 11.3 and in both cases you need an Oracle contract. Otherwise good luck getting updates or access to the IPS repo.

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Betrand, Dennis, On 13.05.22 17:32, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Dennis Clarke a écrit : Thus with 64G of ECC memory and four very expensive 15k rpm SAS disks the thing is a brick.  Or is it ? Is there any reasonable way to :     [A] netboot Debian     [B] toss it on a scrap heap for re-cycle

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 5/16/22 00:15, Chris Quayle wrote: >> It is a damn good machine. However it can *only* run Solaris 10 or maybe >> Solaris 11.3 and in both cases you need an Oracle contract. Otherwise >> good luck getting updates or access to the IPS repo. > > Never bothered about updates, but what is the

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Quayle
On 05/15/22 22:25, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/15/22 14:58, Chris Quayle wrote: On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote: On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote: From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/15/22 14:58, Chris Quayle wrote: On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote: On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote:  From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/15/22 16:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 5/15/22 15:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: Yep .. been there and read that. Even if any of those did work at all we are going in a circle and landing back on some Solaris thing. That is not really of any value any more. It is beginning to

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 5/15/22 15:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Yep .. been there and read that. Even if any of those did work at all we > are going in a circle and landing back on some Solaris thing. That is > not really of any value any more. It is beginning to sound a lot like > Oracle sold a whack of machines

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Quayle
On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote: On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote: From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill:

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Chris Newport
On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote:  From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill:

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote: From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-14 Thread Rick Leir
From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not helpful, sorry and please just delete my message. Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/ Following a few links from that

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Dennis Clarke a écrit : > > Somewhat annoyed by reality but I have to ask. > > [ here you need to hear a long whine noise like metal failing ] > I have a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 brick sitting in my world and near as I > can tell it runs nothing other than Oracle Solaris 11.3 and will never > be

Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
I haven't this kind of server, but some others Sparc64. OpenBSD and NetBSD don't run on M3000. You can test FreeBSD that supported some SPARC64, but... "UltraSPARC is a Tier 2 architecture through FreeBSD 12.x. It is no longer supported in FreeBSD 13.0 and later." Best

Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

2022-05-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
Somewhat annoyed by reality but I have to ask. [ here you need to hear a long whine noise like metal failing ] I have a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 brick sitting in my world and near as I can tell it runs nothing other than Oracle Solaris 11.3 and will never be able to run anything else. Not even the