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souteneur3190
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:28 pm    Post subject: Sun Ultra1 Reply with quote

Ok I would just like to say I am very new with sun comuters. This will be my first installation of gentoo on a sun microsystems compuer. I have a sun Ultra1 Creator (the one with a red "1"). What installation method should I use? And i bleive that I download the "sparc" edition of gentoo? And is this whole thing worthit...is it as slow as ive been hearing? Is it at least usable?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Sparc.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't speak for the Ultra 1 but my Ultra 2 is fine speed wise (384Megs RAM, 2x 300Mhz UltraSparcII, Creator FFB). I wouldn't want to run Gnome or KDE on it but it's quite responsive using Fluxbox or XFCE (or other lightweight WM). I wouldn't want to use it as a primary desktop but it works fine enough for backup use.

Incidentally it currently only runs Boinc/SETI full time but I may offload some light server duties to it down the road.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:32 pm    Post subject: ram Reply with quote

is the ram in the ultra 1 the same in the ultra5?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, Ultra 1 uses 200 pin simms, Ultra 5 uses 168 pin simms

You might want to check out http://sunstuff.org to get a detailed view about this ;)
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