[SunRescue] Cooling in SS4/SS5/SS10?

[P.A.Osborne]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:57:57PM -0400, User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> While I am thinking of things... are there any cooling problem gotchas
> in the SS4/SS5/SS10 boxes?

Not that I have noticed.

> The Sol8 install completed fine.  Actually a pretty braindead install
> compared to SunOS, the old fashioned way.  Startup was slow as molasses.

Welcome to Solaris on older hardware.

> In Sol8, which is the preferred windowz environment, Openwindows or
> CDE, and why one or the other?

I have no idea.  I tend to force xdm to start and use twm....

> Is there a way to bring root up in a cmdline environment rather than
> a windowz environment?  It seems to default to CDE.  Old cmdline habits
> die hard.

I thing running   dtconfig -d    forces the graphical login stuff to not
bother.

> Is 64mb or 80mb of ram sufficient to be happy, or should I try to find
> sticks to load it up to 128mb or 256mb?

Personally I would throw as much memory in as possible.  My SS5 has 80MB
RAM and I found Solaris 7 a taf too sluggish for my liking and installed
OpenBSD instead.

> Are there any online pdf manuals for SS4, SS5 or SS10 machines that
> I should dump to a printer?  FEH sheets might be nice to have handy.

There are hardware docs available at:  http://docs.sun.com  I found a
pdf manual for my SS10.


Paul