[geeks] Sun Ultra 1 Operating System

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
" 
" Does anyone here run a Sun Ultra 1?

<waves hand>

" What operating systems run well on it?
" 
" I assume Solaris 9 will, but I had trouble with NetBSD crashing on it.

pre-releases of 10 would run, but none of the official ones.  you
could presumably compile opensolaris for it...  8 & 9 are both
supported.

i run 8 cause i actually like openwin, and compared to my previous
machine [ss2/weitek] it's real snappy.

" Anyone run NetBSD 2.x or 3.x on one?
" 
" I'm considering putting one into service as a gateway machine since it
" is fairly quiet (as Sun's go).
" 
" It's a U1 I paid $10 for with 640MB of RAM, labeled "Ultra 1 Creator".
" 
" I would normally toss it, but it is quieter than my old SS5 which
" currently does gateway duty.
" 
" It seems to pass all diagnostics.
" 
" Is there a decent way to test the unit without a hard drive?  Maybe a
" boot CD image that will do a long-running test?
" 
" I don't want to spend money on a hard drive just for testing.

does it have a drive sled?  do you have any spare sca drives?

you could boot it diskless from another machine.

you can open a shell window on the os cdrom 1 of 2, though the os is
somewhat limited.  it certainly doesn't have vts installed...
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