On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: > Buy from someone who supports Linux/Debian on Sun/Sparc. Does anybody know a salesman who does this in Germany????
> The point is: if that salesman don't support linux, you are not helped > by the sun label on all your stuff, since if it don't work, you have This is exactly what our salesman told us. > to show that it won't work under solaris, which puts you into the not > desirable situation of supporting both os'es on that box. Which might be a waste of disk space. Anyway, what about a boot manager for Sparc. How to install RAID for both OSes (different filesystem for sure?). > A technical answer: > You didn't say what system you was offered, only whats inside. > I guess the system is an E250. Stupid mistake of mine: Yes, it is an E250. For those who understand German (well specificationa and price is not hard to read: http://www.sun.de/Produkte/Promo/SommerPromo.html Topic: Sun Enterprise E250 (note: you have to add 16% tax to this prices) > The E250 don't have raid functionality, though you can get software > raid with solaris. But that you can get with linux also. Fine. Which HOWTO you suggest to read first to install RAID with Linux? > BTW. the scsi controller is a plain 53c860 if I remember right. > I have not tested the ASR nor the RSC. The salesman offered an additional hardware RAID (for nearly 3/4 of the price of the whole box but half the capacity of the internal disks) because he doesn't know whether software RAID ist possible but I think this is really not necessary. > A third answer: > Why not run solaris. Yes it is a mess compiling/installing/upgradeing > the said software (and installing all gnu software you got used to). > But if you want to be on the bleeding edge you have to do that anyhow, > and web world is kindof bleeding edge. And there are lots of unclean > solutions (what the heck, as long as it deliver in time). > The plus is that you'll get support from your salesman. > The down side is that solaris installs lots of things you possible > don't want to have on a public server. Short answer: There is no apt-get. Long answer: I know Debian very good. I have less time to learn an "other" system. (I'm not afraid to compile things manually. Once I installed a whole GNU system in my /home dir of a HP-UX machine. No problem for me but it should be a secure system many people want to relay on. So I would have to spend time in security issues I know in Debian. And I get security updates/fixes quick and easy via apt-get from security.debian.org. Well, I'm sure I would get fixes from Sun for Solaris, but what about possible bugs in Apache, Zope or PostgreSQL I intent to run basically? Alternative answer: If all fails I can switch back to Solaris but I hope that this not will be necessary. Kind regards Andreas.