[plug] Leeenix/BSD On a SPARC 2

[McMeikan, Andrew]

What a waste of a sparc, I have a sparc2 (though with only 16Mram and
300Mdrive) I find that it is useful for checking portability and keeping
something different around the house, if you need a router/server just grab
an old 386/486 and keep the sparc as a Solaris box to check compatibility
against.

In theory you could load Linux over the network but you would want to have
the HowTo handy ( I am sure one exists somewhere).

	cya,	Andrew...

PS:do you want to sell it?  I hate seeing good hardware wasted.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	bsdave [SMTP:bsdave at linuxstart.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 05, 2000 4:14 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] Leeenix/BSD On a SPARC 2
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I have a SPARCstation 2 with 64 Meg of RAM and a 1 Gig HDD that run's
> Solaris 2.5 ATM, it has a AUI 10Base2 (Coax) tranceiver and is based
> around the Sun4c archecture, It has a SPARC floppy but no cd-rom drive.
> 
> The fact that it run's Solaris 2.5 suck's and I'm going to put either the
> SPARC port's of Debian 2.1r3/4 (slink) or NetBSD 1.4.1 onto it and turn it
> into my router and main server.
> 
> Do any of you guy's (preferabley in the northern suburb's, but hey, I'm
> desperate) have an external SCSI CD-ROM drive that work's on SPARC's? IE,
> it read's in 512 byte chunk's that could be lent to me for a day or so
> while I installed whatever the hell I'm going to install on it? 
> 
> Also, if you have CD's/CD-R's of either NetBSD, Debian or OpenBSD (or
> anything similar, Solaris 7 etc.) for SPARC could you please gimme a mail.
> :D
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> -Dave 
> 
> PS, Hey Mr (Paul) Baumgarten, that is if you still reply to the PLUG
> mailing list and wa.plug during school hours, and when I tried to trick
> you into admitting it you pretended you couldn't here me, ha! :)
> 
> Regards
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