[rescue] Solaris 86 on non-HCL hardware

[Chris Hedemark]

Solaris x86 is horribly slow on PC hardware compared to the 
alternatives.  Just wondering, have you ever tried or considered trying 
a recent release of OpenBSD?   It runs quite well on hardware of that 
vintage, and would have no problem serving files to a Windows client 
via Samba.

On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 11:55 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> Folks-
>
> My son wants to build a file server, so, rather than buy something I
> "rescued" an old DEC xP500 from our own dead-line.  Before you get too
> excited, it's a Pentium 60 PeeCee.  An expensive Pentium 60 PeeCee,
> something like US$15,000 in 1993, but a Pentium 60 PeeCee 
> none-the-less.  It
> has an early P60 with the floating point error, so I'm keeping it 
> around as
> a collector's item.
>
> Since Windows 2000 can't be convinced to install itself on the machine,
> feigning ignorance of the SCSI disk controller, I thought I'd try 
> Solaris
> 86, since I have it on CD and have some Solaris knowledge.
>
> What's the chance of installing Solaris86 7 on this thing?  The box 
> isn't on
> the HCL, but the SCSI card, and Adaptec 1740, is, and I expect I could 
> find
> a compatible NIC around here.  I have no idea what the video is, since 
> it's
> on the motherboard, but it can't be too weird, being a 1993 box.  It's 
> got a
> SCSI CD-rom drive, a Toshiba 5701B, and six SCSI drives in it (2x1gig,
> 2x4gig, 2x4.5gig).  72 megs of RAM.
>
> All he wants it to do is serve files to Windows boxes, so it would be
> running Samba and as little else as could be arranged.
>
> So ... do you think it will work?  Any major gotchas I need to be 
> aware of?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Shel
>
> --
> Sheldon T. Hall
> shel at cmhc.com
> 206-780-7971
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Chris Hedemark
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