On Saturday 13 Aug 2005 21:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
John Bowden wrote:
SCSI is an internal one. I tried plugging it in but being new to this
architecture I don't know how to tell it to look look for the CD ROM.
I have 16 of these machines coming. Got 1 to play with at the moment but
it won't finish booting. Stops while it looks for an ip from dns server.
From what I have been told they used to belong to Wolverhampton
university. I figured it would be easier to load a new OS. I decided on
Deb as they do an Intel version that I could load onto one of my other
machines to get used to how Deb does things.
Provided that it stops at an OpenPROM prompt you should be able to type
boot cdrom. You should be able to force it to the prompt by holding the
STOP and A keys during startup. There's an adequate help command.
I have Done the Stop A sequence and that's when it asks for the password.
When I go into the open boot it asks for a password.
In that case you've got problems. Google for other people's solution to
this, but as I said if you can find one that works you'll be able to copy
the NVRAM- it's a standard Timekeeper RAM.
Some one on the list sudjested taking the rom out and putting it back in after
Stop A sequence, but I don't fancy doing that unless I have to.
I would like to use some of the spare monitors on my Intel boxes as they
won't be used on the SS5's
Many of the available adapters aren't fully wired, e.g. I've got one like
that from RS Components.
Does it work?
I have got keyboards and mice for all the SS5's
Which quite frankly are probably worth more than the SSes.
I beg borrow and steal all sorts of computer equipment to play with, but not
very good at getting rid of it. I got a loft full of stuff :-)
Do you think it might be better to rob the memory out of half the boxes
and use in the other half. When I turn on all my network the local power
station has to fire up another generater to keep up ;-)
Possibly, but these machines are CPU-challenged and adding memory won't fix
that.
I got them to learn about linux clustering so the amount of work they can do
is not a priority. The power consumption might be. I go-ta pay the
electricity bill! Once I have the knowledge I can spend the cash and build
something that is capable of doing some real work.
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