[luau] SparcStation IPX

[al plant]

MonMotha wrote:
> 
> 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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Hi Mon,

You might try Solaris 8 ( It is given away free.)  or what about FreeBSD
I have got that to run on all kinds of boxes. I use FreeBSD 4.5 which is
stable. 
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