[luau] SparcStation IPX

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Tue Jul 16 12:13:00 PDT 2002


I have an old SparcStation IPX that I've upgraded a bit (52MB of RAM, 
cost me $5; 2.1GB HDD, free).  I need some suggestions as to what flavor 
of UNIX to run on it.  Linux seems a bit sluggish on it (it came to me 
with RH 5.2 on it, not to mention RPM hell...), and NetBSD seems to have 
trouble CREATING the Sun disklabel on the new 2.1GB HDD (has an 
x86/MSDOS partition from the comp the disk came out of, obviously this 
can be blown away).

I'm thinking of Solaris/SunOS (older versions obviously) if someone has 
a copy (obviously there's a liscense for this box somewhere as all Sun 
machiens from that era shipped with SunOS) though I have no experience 
with it really.

Anyway, I'm just playing around with it.  A usable X server would be 
nice too. It only has a CGSix in it, but I have a fairly decent Sun 
branded monitor (not using a PC monitor on it) to I could at least use 
it as an X terminal.  Unfortunately the cg6 is only 8bit?

--MonMotha




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