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xtlosx Apprentice
Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 219 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: ultra sparc 1 question |
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hey guys, I was given an Ultra Sparc1 box, no keyboard yet, but wondering how Gentoo runs on one of these old beasts, I was also thinking Solaris 10 or something on there... any ideas from the board? |
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Sugarat Guru
Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 348
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Solaris 10 won't go on that box.. it needs a 64Bit UltraSPARC.
Gentoo will go on okay.. it'll just to take ages to compile!!
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blu3bird Retired Dev
Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 614 Location: Munich, Germany
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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xtlosx wrote: | [...]an Ultra Sparc1 box[...] |
Sugarat wrote: | [...]it needs a 64Bit UltraSPARC[...] |
didn't he say that?
solaris 10 will run but very very slow(that thing only has 1 200mhz US I cpu(at best!)) _________________ Black Holes are created when God divides by zero! |
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xtlosx Apprentice
Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 219 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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it has something like 167mhz and 128 megs of memory... the hard drive seems to be f'ed, it wouldn't finish synching got a panic trying to get to the drive, anyone know if these drives are proprietary (sp?) to sun... can i swap in any scsi-1 drive?
another thing, it says 32 bit default, capable of 64 bit, using boot(m) i believe... i'm trying to find documentation on this old ass box all over, can't find a thing, is there a bios on these things much like x86 machines? thanks guys. |
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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The UltraSPARC I chips (not to be confused with the Ultra 1 workstations) are indeed 64 bits, but they suffered from design flaws that made Solaris have to use a 32 bit kernel on them. The Linux kernel works around this issue, so it's not a problem.
Solaris 10 requires an UltraSPARC II CPU or higher to run (which no Ultra 1 workstation has). |
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Toady Apprentice
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 161 Location: South Wales, UK
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Weeve wrote: | The UltraSPARC I chips (not to be confused with the Ultra 1 workstations) are indeed 64 bits, but they suffered from design flaws that made Solaris have to use a 32 bit kernel on them. The Linux kernel works around this issue, so it's not a problem.
Solaris 10 requires an UltraSPARC II CPU or higher to run (which no Ultra 1 workstation has). |
Exactly so - it will run gentoo - dont expect quick compile times but for a home server / router it would do great. _________________ Toady
Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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xtlosx Apprentice
Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 219 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:39 am Post subject: |
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yea i'm doing an' emerge system right now...
it's taking forever, over night, and it's only on glibc... lol..
haha.... |
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Toady Apprentice
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 161 Location: South Wales, UK
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:35 am Post subject: |
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is it still doing the compiles ? lol
I know it takes some time - but it should make an OK box in the end, a small server or possibly firewall etc - dont think I would want to compile or run X on one tho! _________________ Toady
Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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