Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2010-01-02 Thread Matty
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not

[CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Slack-Moehrle
My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest. I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/29/2009 11:13 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest. Hi Jason, I have

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Neil Aggarwal
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Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Timo, I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that support Sparc? IIRC there was CentOS 4.6, but I'm not sure. Is it a 'Sun Ultra 5' or a 'SPARCstation 5'? It is a Sun Ultra 5 He also says that ZFS rules all Yap, it's nice. If he wants ZFS and maybe wants to become a

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/29/2009 11:28 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: Timo, I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that support Sparc? IIRC there was CentOS 4.6, but I'm not sure. Is it a 'Sun Ultra 5' or a 'SPARCstation 5'? It is a Sun Ultra 5 He also says that ZFS rules all Yap,

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Tim Nelson
- Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest.

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi Peter, I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that support Sparc? Or recommendations? I know OpenBSD does, but I am more versed in Solaris and versions like Slackware or CentOS or Ubuntu. He also says that ZFS rules all and is pissed Apple did not adopt it. Kids

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi Tim, My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest. Fantastic! Nothing helps creativity and exploration

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread nate
Slack-Moehrle wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest. I'd say go the VM route if you can, safer,

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Phil Savoie
On 12/29/2009 05:36 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi Peter, I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that support Sparc? Or recommendations? I know OpenBSD does, but I am more versed in Solaris and versions like Slackware or CentOS or Ubuntu. He also says that ZFS rules

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Tim Nelson wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest. Fantastic! Nothing helps creativity and

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread John R Pierce
Slack-Moehrle wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest. I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Peter A
Jason, 5 will run solaris 10 with a few initial issues. You may have to install 8 or 9 first and then do a firmware upgrade to get 10 to boot for installation. Also, 512MB max will restrict you in what you can do. ZfS boot is possible but slow and in general use, you want to reduce the size

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Peter A
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:11:51 John R Pierce wrote: Slack-Moehrle wrote: My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 29, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi Tim, My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread John R Pierce
Peter A wrote: Jason, 5 will run solaris 10 with a few initial issues. You may have to install 8 or 9 first and then do a firmware upgrade to get 10 to boot for installation. Also, 512MB max will restrict you in what you can do. ZfS boot is possible but slow and in general use, you want

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/29/2009 11:42 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi Tim, My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this interest.

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/30/2009 04:43 AM, Peter A wrote: OH, and I just remembered. the Ultra 10 uses the same memory board, but has a little more room in the chassis, and supports 4 x 256MB tall dimms of the right type, for 1GB.you can get away with this in hte U5 by hacking a bit on the inside.catch

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Sergey Smirnov
Hi, maybe Gentoo Linux will be up on this server. my buddy has successfully ran it on Sun Blade 1000, but there is a UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC III Cu CPUs ( UltraSPARC IIIi on the SF240). I think OpenSolaris will be better there ;) really have fun :) On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:44 PM, ML

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with Debian on Sparc, and NetBSD. S. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | | Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, | postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? | | If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
2009/10/16 Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | | Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, | postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? |

[CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread ML
HI All, I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros that are stable on

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread lhecking
ML writes: HI All, I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread nate
ML wrote: I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros that are stable on Sparc. I *think* debian is the only major distro left that supports SPARC to the fullest extent. Though watch out if your running the latest T1/T2 type processors, last I

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
ML wrote: HI All, Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. -Jason Hi There are some options, like Debian or Fedora 11 in case of Linux or something different try FreeBSD. Regards mg. ___

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Marcelo M. Garcia spake: ML wrote: HI All, Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. -Jason Hi There are some options, like Debian or Fedora 11 in case of Linux or something

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. NetBSD?

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread ML
I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros that are stable on Sparc.

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache,

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread ML
Hi Nate, I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros that are stable on Sparc. I *think* debian is the only major distro left that supports SPARC to the fullest extent. Though watch out if your running the latest T1/T2 type processors, last I

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Nelson
- ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: HI All, I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread m . roth
HI All, I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. Don't forget, if you don't put another o/s on it, http://www.sunfreeware.com/ mark

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread lhecking
Solaris 10. Top notch OS, and comes with ZFS. As does OpenSolaris. Recommend to max it out on RAM. Max out RAM? 16gb? How do you figure that? Apache and MySQL will definitely benefit from it, but if you don't plan on running a busy production server, 2-4GB will probably do. I was

Re: [CentOS] centos sparc distro?

2008-05-23 Thread Jose M Mejia, Ayto de l'Alcora
John R Pierce escribió: tblader wrote: Hello All. I've a couple Sun SPARC Ultra 60 machines I'd like to install Linux on. Is the Centos 4.2 Beta distro* still in development? Looks like 2005 was the last beta release. I'd put Solaris 10 on those.

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-09 Thread Adam Breaux
Debian 4 supports sparc well, has done so for a long time...biggest problem is having to netboot the installer, since most sparc boxes won't get past the initial loader stages booting the kernel, it's some known SILO issue thats been going on for a while. Most distro's seems to falter after an

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Mauritz
Akemi Yagi wrote: On 7/9/07, Adam Breaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? Debian 4 supports sparc well, has done so for a long time...biggest problem is having to netboot the

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-09 Thread John R Pierce
John Bowden wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread. I have got some old Sparc station 5's any one know of an o/s that I can install on them. I would like to learn all about clustering SS5 or Sun Ultra 5 ? the SS5 is way WAY old (discontinued in 1996), 70Mhz and used oddball memory, 8 x 8MB

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/7/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? At this point, I do not know of any effort towards a Sparc version. The problems in getting usable documentation and determined developers. I would probably look at Debian for

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-09 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 09 July 2007 22:41:04 John R Pierce wrote: John Bowden wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread. I have got some old Sparc station 5's any one know of an o/s that I can install on them. I would like to learn all about clustering SS5 or Sun Ultra 5 ? the SS5 is way WAY old

[CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-07 Thread Chris
By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-07 Thread John R Pierce
Chris wrote: By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? why not run solaris on a sparc? its a very _very_ good server kernel.opensolaris and solaris express are getting increasingly better at the user friendly thing. otherwise, why run a sparc at

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

2007-07-07 Thread Chris
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:58:18 -0700 John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris wrote: By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? why not run solaris on a sparc? its a very _very_ good server kernel.opensolaris and solaris express are