On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Gaylard <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an Ultra-60 (2x400MHz CPUs, 2 GiB RAM, elite-3D graphics) > and I'm keen to install OpenSolaris. There are three wrinkles: > > - the box only has a CDROM, not a DVDROM > - my OBP is 3.31. That means that AI images won't work, right? > - I don't have any other Solaris boxen, so jumpstarting is tricky > (impossible?)
Just one question: have you tried to use solaris 10 with zfs root on this system? If no, I suggest you do. That would at least give some idea as to how 400-MHz CPUs perform with zfs root. I've been using a T2000 (16 core @1GHz, I believe) and even that seems sluggish when compared to x86 servers. If you goal is to learn about Opensolaris, x86 servers (or laptop) would probably be a better place. If your goal is to resurrect this box you might have better performance with Solaris 10 or SXCE using ufs root, or even Linux. That being said, as Jan mentioned installing opensolaris on that box won't be easy. If you have other Sun sparc boxes it might be possible to clone an existing installation manually. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
