On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:13 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
I wouldn't call myself a Solaris fan, I haven't really used it in
about 5 or 6 years. But I know it well enough to feel at home there
and found your description of painfully lacking a bit extreme.
That wasn't a dig on all Solaris
On 12/21/06, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:13 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
I wouldn't call myself a Solaris fan, I haven't really used it in
about 5 or 6 years. But I know it well enough to feel at home there
and found your description of painfully
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That wasn't a dig on all Solaris boxes everywhere. On this machine, it's
appropriate. It was setup long ago by people who shouldn't be allowed to
touch a computer. I turned it on and /usr/local couldn't be mounted. I
don't know the root
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
removing the drive and attaching it to another system is still alot
faster than downloading, burning, and booting from a live CD.
You need a faster Internet connection, then. ;-)
Or are you still trying to route your Internet feed through
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... gzip or bzip2. And since both are gnu tools, I wouldn't expect
them on a non-gnu system ...
The point you seem to be missing, Paul, is that if one has spent
forever working on GNU systems, and is then suddenly put on to a
non-GNU system,
On 12/21/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... gzip or bzip2. And since both are gnu tools, I wouldn't expect
them on a non-gnu system ...
The point you seem to be missing, Paul, is that if one has spent
forever working on GNU
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(though not with locate because that's not there).
Locate is too often wrong (i.e. not up-to-date) to be dependable for me.
It's not up to date? It's as up to date as it was when it last
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
removing the drive and attaching it to another system is still alot
faster than downloading, burning, and booting from a live CD.
You need a faster Internet connection, then. ;-)
Well, yes, but don't
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... gzip or bzip2. And since both are gnu tools, I wouldn't expect
them on a non-gnu system ...
The point you seem to be missing, Paul, is that if one has spent
forever working on GNU systems, and is
On 12/21/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seriously though, LiveCDs are not usually less than 100MB. To
download that is going to take some time.
With bittorrent, I can and have pulled down CD images in 12 minutes.
Pulling apart two computer cases, powering things on and off, etc.,
for a SPARC live CD have proved relatively empty so far. Even
distros with live CDs and SPARC distributions like Gentoo and Ubuntu don't
have any ISOs that are both. Anyone else have any great finds in this
regard?
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running Linux, but first I need to get
around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around on it. Since
Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line utilities, it'd sure be
easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
My searches for a SPARC live CD have proved relatively empty so
searches for a SPARC live CD have proved relatively empty so far. Even
distros with live CDs and SPARC distributions like Gentoo and Ubuntu
don't have any ISOs that are both. Anyone else have any great finds in
this regard?
-N
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, but first I need to get
around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around on it. Since
Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line utilities, it'd sure be
easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
My searches for a SPARC live CD have proved relatively empty so far. Even
Tom Buskey wrote:
I'd imagine there's a NetBSD and maybe OpenBSD or Gentoo.
I'd imagine that, too, but I can't find a working link to either for the
Sparc architecture.
The only live OpenBSD CDs that I find are for i386.
The working links that I can find for NetBSD live CDs are also for
On 12/20/06, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Buskey wrote:
I'd imagine there's a NetBSD and maybe OpenBSD or Gentoo.
I'd imagine that, too, but I can't find a working link to either for the
Sparc architecture.
The only live OpenBSD CDs that I find are for i386.
The working
Neil Joseph Schelly writes:
I'm trying to get an UltraSPARC server running Linux, but first I need to get
around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around on it. Since
Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line utilities, it'd sure be
easier to boot this thing up
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:25 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Neil Joseph Schelly writes:
I'm trying to get an UltraSPARC server running Linux, but first I need to
get around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around on it.
Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command
Can't you just install GNU versions of the utilities?
http://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.net/indexsparc7.html
They have pretty much everything there that you could possibly need
as far as CLI utils go. I'd hit up fileutils-4.1 and tar-1.16 for
starters.
I believe they all install in
On 12/20/06, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:25 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Neil Joseph Schelly writes:
I'm trying to get an UltraSPARC server running Linux, but first I need to
get around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around on
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:20 am, Tom Buskey wrote:
Ah, not using ps -ef? /usr/ucb/ps instead of /bin/ps. I bet you want
the BSD ls behavior too? /usr/ucb/ls. Probably some others in
/usr/ucb too.
Hmm, tar isn't gnutar. I think gzip is in Solaris 7. SSH is not.
For gnu stuff and
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line utilities,
it'd sure be easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
I'm curious what you mean by painfully lacking modern command line
utilities. What more do you need than various
On 12/20/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious what you mean by painfully lacking modern command line
utilities. What more do you need than various combinations of ...
I can sympathize with the OP. After working almost exclusively with
Linux and/or systems with the full GNU
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:23 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line utilities,
it'd sure be easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
I'm curious what you mean by painfully lacking modern
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:04:33PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On 12/20/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious what you mean by painfully lacking modern command line
utilities. What more do you need than various combinations of ...
Someone who works in a more heterogeneous
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