[rescue] RE: What do we do with a poor old SS/2...

[Ken Hansen]

My advice:

1) Don't get an IPC unless it falls out of the sky into your lap ready to go, but that is just me. An LX/Classic can probably be gotten for minimal dollars, and could run Solaris 8, if the drivers for your FDDI card required it. Also, be on the alert for an SS/5 - that would be a great box with a bit of a future. (My SS/5-170 is *loaded* and is very snappy too for most end-user needs (thanks to a TGX)).

2) Managing bookmarks - sounds like you are re-inventing Yahoo... 

3) On an SS/2 Solaris 2.5.1 would be acceptable, if youpared down the OS (i.e. minimal install), and remember to run it headless (tty console/telnet-only). I learned Solaris Admin using Solaris 2.5.1 on IPCs, and while it wasn't speedy, for the little bit of dinking around in admintool and xterms it was OK. Although, installing Solaris from a 1x CD-ROM drive was like watching paint dry in a very humid room ;^)

HTH,

Ken

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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:41:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [rescue] OS for low memory machine
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

I have an SS2, which I trying to get going (I need either a CD-ROM or boot
server, both of which are being troublesome).  It has some hard drive
space (it can easily be expanded if need be), and 40megs of ram.  Well I
originally was thinking SunOS for historical reasons, but things changed
and I don't want SunOS on this machine for the same reason anymore.  So,
then I was thinking NetBSD because it is fast and powerful, and happy with
not much memory.  However, things change again, and now I want an FDDI
card in this machine, which seems to mean going back to an official Sun
operating system, but I also want to do real work on the machine
(specifically, run one or more web servers and postgres database for
developmental work).  So, should I go with SunOS (the machine won't be
directly exposed to the internet, but rather certain ports for SSH, and
and web servers will be portmapped), or a Solaris?  I'm pretty sure that
Solaris 7 and 8 would be unacceptable on only 40megs, but what about 2.51
or 2.6?

Or maybe, I should just find an IPC type machine to take the FDDI card (I
need a machine to bridge from the FDDI network to the ethernet) and go
back to putting NetBSD on the SS2. 

While I'm mainly a graphics guy, where I currently live, money is more
easily made doing web stuff.  Plus, there are certain web services that I
need for myself.  Specifically, my bookmarks (currently managed with a
perl CGI script and a tab delimited file on a school machine) are getting
to be to numerous.  I want to go with something that allows me to enter my
own keywords and comments, plus keep track of when added, and keeping a
full text copy of all bookmarked pages for easier searching.

Plus, I want keywoard based categorization, and user management, since
some people have been bugging me to make this a public service.

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Joshua Boyd



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