Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:09:13 -0400 From: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Help I've just been Given an Ultra Sparc II Message-ID: <20020826160913.GB54644@web.ca> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020826110922.00a7ee68@pop.hotpop.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020826110922.00a7ee68@pop.hotpop.com>
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:12:42AM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > Well I recently (within the last 5 minutes) have been given an Ultra Sparc > II machine. No one knows what is on. I just need a little help deciding > what to run on it. I'm downloading Sparc 9 since it's free. But I > was wondering if anyone had in suggestion as to NetBSD or OpenBSD or even > a Linux that might be a better choice for it! netbsd is a good choice -- if the machine's got an operating system on it that you can boot, and a swap partition, you can 'dd' the netbsd install stuff onto the swap partition, boot from that, and do a network install. i've done that with machines that were running sunos... pretty straightforward, worked great, and the machines are rock solid. - rob -- Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> System Administrator, Web Networks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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