13 Feb
2001
13 Feb
'01
11:53 p.m.
I use a Sparcstation IPX (sparc 2) for my firewall/NAT box. I put a
second ethernet interface into it and run NetBSD. I tried Linux, but
it runs like a dog in the sparc architecture due to a lack of simularity
to the PC memory management scheme. NetBSD runs fine! Check out the NetBSD
web site for ideas on getting your box up and running...
http://www.netbsd.org
--tom
At 07:49 AM 2/14/01 GMT, you wrote:
On Feb 13, 15:37, Jim Arnott wrote:
This may be off-topic, but are there any
SPARCstation users on the
list? I just came into one with a missing hard drive and am looking
for O/S information to make it live again.
I've got a Sparcstation 1+ which came diskless, and I worked out how to set
up a hard drive for it (it now has one internal and one external running
Soalris 2.3). If you can find a compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive (must be able
to be set to 512-byte blocks, like a Toshiba or Plextor) and Solaris media
(pre Solaris 8 for that architecture) it's easy to set up. Otherwise, try
Linux or BSD.
I can't offer much help over the next week or so as I'll be out of email
range :-( but happy to help when I get back.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York