[rescue] Sun T2000 latest OBP image?

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Mon Jun 1 09:28:15 CDT 2015


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> On Jun 1, 2015, at 09:10, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2015 09:07 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>>> I got a copy, thanks everyone for responding.
>>>>
>>>> The version of OBP that I had on some of my T2000s that was dated in
2005
>>>> didn't seem to boot Debian successfully.
>>>
>>> That's a feature. Running Linux on perfectly good SPARC hardware? Heresy!
>>
>> It could be worse. I could be trying to run Solaris on it. ;-)
>
>  At least it would be fast. ;)
>
>  But to be fair, I haven't seen Linux on SPARC in many, many years.
> How well does it take advantage of the hardware these days?

Unknown, but I presume it has LDOM support to some level.

I know OpenBSD even has userland LDOM admin tools - which is a reason I want a
T2000.

>
>             -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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