Re: Free to a good home (or, party like it's 1995)

They also make adaptors so you can hook up a normal analog vga  
monitor to a sun box. Personally, i like this route better than using  
a real sun monitor ... doesn't make your house feel like an oven :-P.

> Both machines should boot up into Debian pre-Sarge with 2.6 Linux
> kernel (yes, that means you won't need to figure out how to
> net-install using TFTP, RARP and the guts of OpenFirmware!),

I'm almost thinking it would be fun to spend an evening at MorLUG  
mucking with the install procedure. At the very least it would give  
those that have never had the ... pleasure ... of doing a tftp  
install a chance to mess with it.

If no one else bites I'll pick them up and drop them into the cache a  
cache of MorLUG hardware and save them for a meeting.

(yeah, i know, i'm not off list :-P)

Mike.
[email protected]




On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:48 PM, David A. Riggs wrote:

> Free to a good home (ie. anyone willing to pick this junk up from my
> apartment near the stadium):
>
> - Sun Ultra 1 workstation, single 166MHz 64bit SPARC
>
> - Sun SPARCStation 20, dual-CPU 75MHz 32bit SPARC
>
> Both machines should boot up into Debian pre-Sarge with 2.6 Linux
> kernel (yes, that means you won't need to figure out how to
> net-install using TFTP, RARP and the guts of OpenFirmware!), have a
> few hundred MB RAM, a few spare hard disks, and framebuffer cards.
> Both should be in perfect working order. They do NOT come with a Sun
> monitor, but I will give you a null modem cable for serial terminal
> (and you can of course SSH into them). The SS20 was my
> CVS/SVN/mail/web server for several years, and while these guys are a
> bit old, they'll outperform an x86 at twice the clock speed
> (yee-haw!). If nothing else, you can use them for a cross-compilation
> farm and heat your entire apartment with them.
>
> Contact me OFF LIST if  you would like to adopt either or both of
> these highly-desirable boat-anchors. Note that I won't offer any
> technical support on these machines, I'm getting rid of them because I
> don't have time for it myself.
>
>
> -- 
> David A. Riggs <[email protected]>
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