[luau] SparcStation IPX

[Eric Hattemer]

Well, if you ever do get another hard drive, the only OS I could find
instructions on installing with no CD and no floppy was OpenBSD, I believe.
It crashed like mad, but I think there's something wrong with my sun
hardware.  But if you don't have a floppy and need any help loading
something onto that machine using rarp and bootparamd and all of that kind
of stuff, I can probably remember.

-Eric Hattemer
----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] SparcStation IPX


>
>
> Dan George wrote:
> > MonMotha wrote:
> >
> >> al plant wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't think Solaris 8 will run on it (and I thought it was only free
> >> for x86?).  Even if it would, it would be hellishly slow (only a 40MHz
> >> proc after all).  I personally don't like FreeBSD, but I'm OK with the
> >> other BSDs.
> >>
> >> Anyway, it turns out that the 2.1GB HDD is physically bad (it does
> >> sound like an angle grinder after all...), so I'll have to put the old
> >> 400MB one back in for now, and I want to keep RH5.2 on it.  Anyway, RH
> >> should at least run better with 52MB of RAM instead of 16.
> >>
> >> --MonMotha
> >>
> >>
> > When your talking about Solaris 8 or FreeBSD 4.5, what is the real
> > practical purpose of learning to use those when they are so outdated? It
> > must just be a hobby and not for learning
> > to use for business.
> >
>
> Old hardware exists.  Old installations exist.  There's plenty of people
> using FreeBSD 4.5 or Solaris 8.  They need support; they need people who
> know how those operating systems work.  Besides, do you think I'm doing
> anythign serious with a SparcStation IPX that currently has no OS on it?
:)
>
> (yes, it's a hobby, everything I do is a hobby as I have no job)
>
> --MonMotha
>
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