Got a Sun Ultra 2. What do I do with it?
I recently aquired a used Sun Ultra 2 Creator3D workstation and monitor, but I have no idea what to do with. It has dual 300MHz UltraSparc2 CPUs, 1GB RAM, and a 4GB SCSI hard drive, so I'm thinking it would make a good server. The only problem is there's no OS installed and the machine doesn't have a CD drive. Does anyone with experience with SUNs know how to install an OS via Ethernet or floppy? I know the machine works because I got to the OK screen and could run some diagnostic commands. And should I run Solaris or go with a Linux distro?
If anyone could give me suggestions I'd appriciate it.
If anyone could give me suggestions I'd appriciate it.
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Anyone know how to set up Mac OS X to be a netboot server for non-PowerPC OSs?
I use a Sun Ultra 1 200E with 512MB RAM as my web server.
Originally posted by /mandolux/
...you could donate it to me
I use a Sun Ultra 1 200E with 512MB RAM as my web server.
Haha, no. I got this thing for $150 and I here they're worth $1000. I'm holding on to it.
Between Solaris, Linux, and BSD, I'm leaning towards Linux because I believe there's more software available for it. I also got a hold of someone who might be able to help me get an OS installed, so I'll let you know how it goes.
Originally posted by Kecksy
Haha, no. I got this thing for $150 and I here they're worth $1000. I'm holding on to it.
Between Solaris, Linux, and BSD, I'm leaning towards Linux because I believe there's more software available for it. I also got a hold of someone who might be able to help me get an OS installed, so I'll let you know how it goes.
Not really. In theory any program posix compliant (i.e. runs on linux) should run on other nixes. If you can get binaries, that makes it easier. You best bet would probably be to run Solaris, but I don't think that's free.
My two cents, as someone who has used both BSD (besides osx) and linux.
Given dual CPUs and ample RAM, you may consider Gentoo linux, wherein you compile/optimize your own software.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris...ies/index.html
Unfortunately one of the restrictions seems to be single CPU systems only.