From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 9: 9:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5231237B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spin.web.net (spin.web.net [192.139.37.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8F643E3B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@web.net) Received: by spin.web.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CCCC12E484; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:09:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:09:13 -0400 From: Rob Ellis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Help I've just been Given an Ultra Sparc II Message-ID: <20020826160913.GB54644@web.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Ellis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020826110922.00a7ee68@pop.hotpop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020826110922.00a7ee68@pop.hotpop.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 System Administrator, Web Networks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message