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



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
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there's one of those covered in dust  in the cupboard where I work.
(they're pretty massive boxes aren't they!).
Are you going to keep Solaris on it, or try to put linux on it.
I'd suggest leaving Solaris since it works, 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).
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?

Jeff Davies
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