Hello again,
as it seems, it's best to keep the Solaris 8 or 9 (I've got media for both,
thanks to Martin for the kind offer).
If rumours come true, I'd better be quick downloading the missing stuff, too.
Having used (and still so) IBM's OS/2 for more than a dozen years now and
having been witn
> Given that you only have the two UltraSPARC_IIi 270MHz chip flavours,
^
err: ... one of the two, which you did not specify.
> %martin
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Hartmut Krafft wrote:
> 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
Hartmut Krafft wrote:
> 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
The LiveCD is x86 only, is a LiveCD, but contains the installer to
install from the LiveCD.
> 4) Solaris 10
Hartmut Krafft wrote:
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 we
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
Oh, I forgot: I don't need you to tell, what you can do with a U5 as
soon as it has one or more UW, UW2 or faster bootable (from OBP!) SCSI
cards inside.
Add a nice external device chain including a 4x or 8x tomer, a SCSI
scanner for use inside XSane, a DDS4 and so on.
I did all this when a U10 was
> plus a qfe card or Gigabit-NIC plus FireWire/USB2 combo card (at
> $9,-).
With this you can add as many external (right now up to 2 TB per unit)
hdd's, Blue ray, DVD-RW or Nikon-Digital Cameras, as your fantasylets
you imagine.
Put ZFS onto the 2TB hdd's and build a small zpool.
Performance on
> However, the LiveCD is still x86 only, as the SPARC release requires
> network install, and the Free CD offer is for the 2008.11 release,
> not the development builds which have SPARC support in, so the free
> CD he order still won't help him. (And even with network install,
> an Ultra 5 is li
Shawn Walker wrote:
> Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
>> are you aware of the fact that OpenSolaris is currently x86 only? SPARC
>> support seems to be planned for later this year, but is not there yet.
>
> No longer true:
> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_build_106_now_with
However, the
I haven't tried it, but it should work, at least in theory. As long as you
remember to name the root pool something other than "rpool" in one of them.
Cheers
Andrew.
2009/3/16 Thomas Maier-Komor
> andrew schrieb:
> >
> > There are development builds of OpenSolaris for SPARC available, which
>
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Maier-Komor
wrote:
> andrew schrieb:
>>
>> There are development builds of OpenSolaris for SPARC available, which
>> presumably means no Sun support is available for it.
Would it be interesting to put them onto a LiveCD similar to Indiana on x86?
There is
andrew schrieb:
>
> There are development builds of OpenSolaris for SPARC available, which
> presumably means no Sun support is available for it. You need wanboot support
> (either via openboot or a Solaris install CD) to install OpenSolaris on SPARC
> at the moment. Your best bet is a recent b
> Hartmut Krafft schrieb:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5
> workstation, and I decided to give it a try. Right
> now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as
> there are some annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some
> proprietary software not ported to the platform)
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> Hartmut Krafft wrote:
> #6) installboot
>
> EXAMPLES
> Example 1 Installing UFS Boot Block
>
> To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on con-
> troller 1 of
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Hartmut Krafft wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5 workstation, and I decided to
>> give it a try. Right now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as
>> there are some annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some
Shawn Walker schrieb:
> Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
>> are you aware of the fact that OpenSolaris is currently x86 only? SPARC
>> support seems to be planned for later this year, but is not there yet.
>
> No longer true:
> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_build_106_now_with
>
> Cheers,
Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
are you aware of the fact that OpenSolaris is currently x86 only? SPARC
support seems to be planned for later this year, but is not there yet.
No longer true:
http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_build_106_now_with
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
Hartmut Krafft schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5 workstation, and I decided to give
> it a try. Right now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as there are
> some annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some proprietary software not ported to
> the platform), I tou
Hartmut Krafft wrote:
Hi all,
recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5 workstation, and I decided to give it
a try. Right now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as there are some
annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some proprietary software not ported to the
platform), I tought about in
Hi all,
recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5 workstation, and I decided to give it
a try. Right now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as there are some
annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some proprietary software not ported to the
platform), I tought about installing a newer version
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