Re: Most hassle free sparc64 platform

On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 04:37:36PM +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
> What is considered to be a relatively hassle free sparc64 box to run
> OpenBSD 4.7/4.8 on?
> 
> Requirements are fairly minimal: headless, MP if possible.  To
> support: NAT via pf, apache, postfix, shell for 2-3 users.
> 
> Was looking at Ultra30/60 as they are cheap here in the UK.  Any
> comments/experiences to share?

Ultra 60 works fine for me here, running 4.8-current
(but releases should work, too, of course).

I'm doing some IRC, Web, Mail and playing with Nagios.

I have two 360 Mhz CPUs in it and serial works fine, too,
with a DB9-to-RJ45-connector (though it must be 'crossed' IIRC,
as some pins are weird, perhaps somebody else can tell more).

So the headless part is no problem, but if you need a monitor,
you should get a 13W3-to-VGA adapater.

Works very nice and stable and for your requirements
it should totally suffice IMHO, so go for it ;-)

Regards,
Simon