[rescue] SunStation IPX

[Benjamin Gardiner]

On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 02:55 Australia/Melbourne, Sheldon T. 
Hall wrote:

> "Benjamin Gardiner" <cvisors at carnagevisors.net> said ...
>
>> Well I have just got my hands on a Sun IPX, and I was wondering what
>> versions of solaris run on this machine, I know 2.8 & 2.9 (8 & 9) most
>> probably won't, but what versions do?
>
> [2.]7 certanly works fine on an IPX.  I ran a 64-meg IPX with a 1-gig 
> hard
> drive for about a year; it was serving mail, time, DHCP, and various 
> other
> chores for our little LAN.
>
> If you want to run a GUI, don't do it on the console; it's pretty slow.
> Running it from an X-terminal isn't so bad.  Using a serial terminal or
> emulator is quite reasonable.  Use a Macintosh modem cable and a null 
> modem
> to hook up a terminal.
>
> -Shel
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I have the null modem cable for this allready, as it looks like it has 
the same sort of serial ports that I have on my Silicon Graphics Indigo.
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