[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC

[Steve Sandau]

With the last couple of Sol8 installs I did (one on a 5 with 64M--works
fine) I skipped the "Install" disk and went right to the software disk 1
of 2. It's bootable and skips all the unnecessary web-based crap.

Another point on installs--I've found that the speed of the CDROM drive
(a stock Sun one can be pretty slow) makes quite a bit of differece in
the overall install time. You think Sol8 on a SPARC5 is slow... try
Win2k on a P233!

Kevin Loch wrote:
> 
> "Sheldon T. Hall" wrote:
> > advertisement for Java one could imagine.  Making it a part of the normal
> > installation process was a huge blunder; at the very least they should have
> > had the installation routines check the hardware and run the installation in
> > character mode if the hardware was too old/slow/small.
> >
> 
> Just run the install from the console port.  Seyon terminal
> program with it's xterm support works great (choose xterm
> mode in the installation).  If you use
> minicom on windows, choose vt100 in the install.  It's
> messy but it works.
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Steve Sandau, IS Technician
TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com