Sun SPARCstation 2

I think that not being able to access greater than 2GB makes it difficult to setup a large disk, even if you are keeping the individual partitions to less than 2GB. I don't know the exact details, but the version of SunOS that I had just wouldn't do it. Maybe there was a patch or update which would have fixed the problem as you describe. In my case, I wanted to use the IPX on a daily basis and be able to install all of the latest applications (apache, qpopper, etc.). This is why I went with NetBSD. I tried Linux, but it was dog slow on the sparc (see my previous post about this). If he doesn't have a real application for the box and doesn't require the latest greatest software, then one of the old SunOS releases should be fine. --tom