Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:53:30 -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%2BVBNVRisvVe=Hm3Pmxvk9zhV2CqRkiaCzJ7kY7R42pQxyU6Tw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHYQbfCdwReUZ7Ms6VrgBcbBMh3Fn1t6o8TgV%2BOYUA6QRqFA3w@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> <CA%2BVBNVTGfskA_Zwf-Ma9iJF5EzRVCBuPt=5L9FQ0ZGcsSMGdeg@mail.gmail.com> <CAHYQbfCdwReUZ7Ms6VrgBcbBMh3Fn1t6o8TgV%2BOYUA6QRqFA3w@mail.gmail.com>
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I've also had luck putting the tall memory modules in an ultra 5, bumping it to 1G ram. this did take me removing the (quite useless) floppy drive. later, I got some X7039A's, which are low-profile versions. then I got room to put another 3.5 inch drive in. --curt On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto@gmail.com> wrote: > hmm, got the 2013 version on CD. It made it pretty far along but crashed > and burned whilst loading the miniroot, or whatever they call it, to > ramdisk. Memory's just too darn small. > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:11 AM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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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