[geeks] Re: [rescue] Retorical question: Anyone given "novices" Sun boxes todisplace Win systems?

[Ken Hansen]

I think the install is even easier - the disk on a chip takes an IDE slot,
IIRC.

You could have HDD & CD-ROM.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Huhn" <kurt at k-huhn.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Cc: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: [geeks] Re: [rescue] Retorical question: Anyone given "novices" Sun
boxes todisplace Win systems?


> >
> > I was looking at those as well..  They run Linux off a cdrom and have a
> > small flash (8 megs) for local storage of config files, etc..
Supposedly
> > it isn't hard to hook a hdd to them at all, and then there is always the
> > option of a netboot :-)
> >
>
> We have a NIC sitting in the foyer of our office.  It's currently powered
> off, doing nothing.  We got it for free from ThinkNIC when we inked the
> beginings of a partnership deal a couple months ago.
>
> I have a 5GB notebook hard drive that should be trivial to install (unplug
> CD-ROM, plug in HD).  I'll bet any current Linux distro would run like a
> champ, just considering what I've seen onthe CD.
>
> Kurt
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