Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:11:37 -0800 From: zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy@gmail.com> To: Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reintro and pkgng aghastness Message-ID: <CA%2BVBNVTGfskA_Zwf-Ma9iJF5EzRVCBuPt=5L9FQ0ZGcsSMGdeg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHYQbfDbAOhx_m_jOP=s8D=JpO_NmZq=ATEHETZFb_Zcb4mZxg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHYQbfC6x=gtrtOX75ajQ1d4SgdB3FAi33hzxXrm6c4-1=OjBw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BVBNVQ8mpCZY-Or1S2OyvB3nBB=2qJJk1EbcBNy5fK0eMuRDw@mail.gmail.com> <CAHYQbfDbAOhx_m_jOP=s8D=JpO_NmZq=ATEHETZFb_Zcb4mZxg@mail.gmail.com>
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I've had luck putting a sata to scsi adaptor on a DVD. should be able to boot that. also, there's plenty of IDE dvd's around. you'd have to open the ultra 5 up, though :-> --curt On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto@gmail.com> wrote: > Was just about to do that - I have it running on my T1000. But Martin's > open source politics scared me a little a few months ago - he pulled > everything OpenSXCE-related from the Internet and there was no recourse for > the OpenSXCE user community. Maybe it's worth another go now that that > appears to be sorted out. Unfortunately there's no way for me to load the > 2014 bits on my Ultra5 as it's a dvd-only release :\ > > thx > jake > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There's another option that maybe you shouldn't ignore. >> >> OpenSxce. it's illumos plus a lot of hackery minus a lot of stupidity >> for Sparc. I run it happily on my Sun Blade 1000. modern ZFS and >> everything. >> XVR-1000 support. root on SSD. fan control support - this clinched it >> for me. neither linux or freebsd can turn the freaking fan off or down. >> >> plus source. >> >> plus, runs solaris 11 binaries from that "O"ther company. >> >> get it from opensxce.org >> >> --curt >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'd been away from FreeBSD for fifteen years, but I'm back and I'm >>> pleased to announce that I'm using a computer that's from around the >>> time I >>> left FreeBSD :) It's a nice little Sun Ultra 5. Bone stock; doesn't >>> even >>> look like the case has ever been open. I recently had to stop using >>> Solaris >>> because they're became evil and Illumos because they're kind of not >>> supporting this hardware anymore. I tried OpenBSD, but its applications >>> just crashed. So here I pragmatically am. >>> >>> I like FreeBSD. I didn't leave out of disgust or anything; mostly just >>> employment being all-Sun years ago. So it's cool revisiting it and >>> seeing >>> all the changes and all the stayed-the-sames. >>> >>> I'm pretty exited about the new FreeBSD pkgng system. I had the >>> extreme >>> pleasure of using it whilst installing my SPARC last night (which, >>> unfortunately, took from mid evening until around 4:30 in the morning. (I >>> didn't have any cds or floppies at my disposal, so I instead built the >>> network / diskless system installl on a virtualbox vm on my Mac and >>> installed FreeBSD to the SPARC from there). Good old >>> rarp/boopt/tftp/nfs! >>> Reminded me of Sun Jumpstart! I was really pleased that this way of >>> doing >>> things still works on FreeBSD Truly a slick and smart design. >>> >>> But is it true that I can't actually use pkgng on my real computer >>> because It's not a PC? >>> >>> I've been looking around the Internet for some hours, now, to no avail. >>> Are there seriously *no* package repos for SPARC? >>> >>> If that's the case, I'd like to help remedy it. I've read around on >>> how >>> to contribute, but it seems none of what's out there pertains to pkgng >>> for >>> sparc. >>> >>> Please let me know if I'm understanding the situation right and how I >>> can >>> help, if help is wanted. I have a lot of SPARCs and they need a >>> trustworthy operating system with software package system that doesn't >>> have >>> to be manually-wrought. >>> >>> "Oh, wow, it just finished its five-plus-hour ports build of freaking >>> tmux!" >>> jake >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> >
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