Hello, everyone. I've been a SuSE user for quite some time now, but only ever tried to run it on a Sparc once a couple of years ago without much success. Well, the time has come to try again. Unfortunately, my background is firmly rooted in x86-land, so I'm looking for some help.
I have just received four Sun Sparc10 machines from a client who has finally migrated all of their systems away from these older machines. However, they contain a lot of parts that are unfamiliar to me. I believe one is a single SuperSparc, one is a single HyperSparc, another seems to be a dual SuperSparc and the last looks like a quad SuperSparc. I even have a spare CPU module just hanging around. They contain a variety of video cards, i.e. GX, SGX and TurboGX. I also have a quad ethernet card which I don't know the speed of, 10MB v 100MB, and one also contains a RAID card, allegedly. And what is an MII connector for, and why do I have one on the 100MB NICs ? The problem I have is that I know so little about Sun hardware that I don't know how the different items compare, e.g. which of the vidcards is best/fastest/highest colours/highest resolution, and is the quad SuperSparc going to be faster then the single HyperSparc ? I don't even know how to find out the actual part numbers yet, so I don't even know what to search for on Google or the Sun website. I don't even know the speed of the different CPUs. Pretty pathetic, huh ? Would any of you be willing to help me figure out what I have and point me to where I can find more info about this stuff ? I'd be more than happy to keep it off list if everyone prefers it that way. What I'd ultimately like to do with these machines is have one as a desktop machine to play with, and then use the others as various utility servers, e.g. firewall, ftp server, VPN connector, lightweight web server, webmail frontend and the like. That's why I'd like to know a little more about the hardware, so that I can tailor each machine by switching the parts to make it more suitable for its intended role. Thanks, Stuart. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
