3 Apr
2013
3 Apr
'13
11:19 a.m.
On 04/03/2013 02:08 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
Oh that's neat, I didn't know that!
You can do a
"Jumpstart" install (a very highly-automated form of
network installation )if you have another running Solaris system.
If you're unfamiliar with that and want to do it, contact me
privately, I can help.
You can actually jumpstart from an OSX system and a Linux box. There
are various tutorials on this. And now Sun gear is becoming vintage hardware (gasp)
and Solaris and
SunOS Vintage OSes.
No more so than "all Fords are antiques, because there are antique
Fords". Brand new SPARC-based Suns (regardless of the company name on
the sticker) were introduced within the past few weeks, the
UltraSPARC-T5 is pretty damn impresssive. And Solaris...well, there was
a new Solaris release not too long before that.
Unless you just meant "really old Suns" or "really old releases of
Solaris", of course.
So it is OT :D I find it hard to believe the
E3000 in my basement could be considered vintage. It is circa 1996 so
it's 17 years old :)
There's more to "vintage" than just "being old". "We know
it when we
see it". While I love E3Ks and consider them to be cool, I'd
(personally) never consider them to be "vintage". IMO.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA