Re: [f-cpu] SUN server : hacking in progress

[Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org>]

hi !

Jeff Davies wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2001  1:14 am, you wrote:
> > Jeff Davies wrote:
> > > What type is it yann?
> >
> > SUN SPARC MP670, iirc, with one CPU board (6CPU ???) and only 64MB
> > RAM (all 32 slots are populated with 30-pin SIMMs...)
> > however, it's a very nice system when it comes to ethernet
> > and SCSI, it has 4 combo modules.
> > maling it boot a decent OS will be a pain, though.
> > More about it next week when i get the authorisations.
> > WHYGEE
> there's one of those covered in dust  in the cupboard where I work.
> (they're pretty massive boxes aren't they!).
this is one way of describing it :-)
however, the smallest CELARO cabinet configuration is 5x more massive :-)
and the largest CELARO configuration is 10x larger than the smallest one,
so i'm not impressed much ;-P

> Are you going to keep Solaris on it, or try to put linux on it.
seems that Lionel wants to put Linux, because he wants to include
the machine log in his SPARC HOWTO :-) He told me that Solaris
won't work past v2.4.

> I'd suggest leaving Solaris since it works,
"leave" it ? there is no HDD inside the CPU box,
and the 2 HDD ("storage") boxes work with difficulty,
the university tried to install BSD so i presume that
any previous OS is flushed.

> and is so similar to
> linux in any case. There is somewhere on the web a pile of gnu software
> precompiled for Solaris (including gcc and libc etc obviously).
but i doubt that Solaris is available for free...

> There is a package management system built into Solaris (a bit like
> rpm). So you just download the Solaris packages, and then
> install them like RPM.
> I think the version of Solaris might be quite early on the above machine.
> Aren't the CPUs Sparc1?
i'm not a specialist :-/

> Jeff Davies
WHYGEE
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