Re: Re: Suns-at-Home digest, Vol 1 #694 - 4 msgs

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:15:19AM -0700, Brian Costello wrote:
> I am running Solaris 9 on my Sunfire V100 which is my web and mail  
> server. I would say it has been running a really looong time, thanks in  

I'm running NetBSD 5.0 on my SunFire V100, which serves as a NTP, DNS
and backup server in my home network. The reason for NetBSD: Linux
doesn't really work on that machine, NetBSD works great out of the box
on it and Solaris is just a bit to different from the admin POV for the
time being. And never mind the broken installer[0].


> BTW: Here is what it looks like:    
> http://costello.mine.nu/private/mysun.html

Well, that kind of machine doesn't have to look like that:
http://www.thangorodrim.de/blackboxsun/index.html

;-)

Regards,
       Alex.
[0] Installer found the NetBSD partitions and promptly died. Zeroing out
    the first few disk blocks worked around that. Apparently, the
    Solaris installer getting all panicky when seeing non Slowlartus
    partitioning is an old known bug. Still there in Solaris 10.
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