Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
I was using it as simply a second workstation while my main workstation was down, and one that my girlfriend could use while I had my laptop and tablet with me. However, I wouldn't mind putting it to more well-deserved uses, like an LDAP server, backup server, db server, etc. So, I was

Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Joseph Simantov
I'd like to add my own good experience using Debian 3.1 on Ultra5s; both 333 and 400 Mhz models perform wonderfully well as web servers using PHP/Mysql and/or Postgresql. One negative point though: I found switching to a non-English keyboard to be somewhat tricky and leading to an unpredictable

Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Please reply to the list rather than to me personally - I do read the posts and it allows others to benefit from your wisdom. The IDE limitation is 120GB (ish) - however, this does not mean it wouldn't be a useful backup box - stick a USB card in, very cheap these days, and attach an external

AW: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
Hi Pete, hi Mr. Zimmermann, I am quite sure that the OBP will not recognize the SATA disk controller. We use an AHA29160 SCSI controller within an U60; the method of choice for booting is either a CD or a netboot (here). One could alternatively insert a small SCSI / PATA disk to boot from and

Re: AW: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi Pete, hi Mr. Zimmermann, I am quite sure that the OBP will not recognize the SATA disk controller. We use an AHA29160 SCSI controller within an U60; the method of choice for booting is either a CD or a netboot (here). One could alternatively insert a small SCSI / PATA disk to boot from and

Hardisk size limit SCSI

2006-03-22 Thread Daniel Priem
Hello everybody, is there a size limit when connecting SCSI Drives to e220r/e420r/t1125? my 73GB HDs working all out of the box, but now i think about buying some bigger SCSI/SCA Harddisks like 300GB MAW3300NP/NC or 147GB like MAW3147NP/NC. And how many and how big drives can be connected to the

Fwd: Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
Whoops! Seems my reply-to in kmail is going to the poster and not the list... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5 Date: Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:10 am From: Joseph M. Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 22 March 2006 05:58

The SPARC Context Id ?

2006-03-22 Thread Weihan Wang
Hi, I'm a kernel developer as well as a newbie to SPARC. I'm not quite sure the purpose of the 13-bit context identifier in SPARC translation table entries. I searched through the SPARC architecture manual and the web but found no enough details. P.S. is there any other public references that

Ultra 10 boot issues

2006-03-22 Thread Dave Barnett
All: I can really use your help, please. I've been looking for the answer to this for the past few days, and am unable to find one. I installed from the same Woody CDs I installed my other Ultra 10. Woody came up fine. I switched from stable to unstable [same as on the other U10], and

SPARC Context Id?

2006-03-22 Thread Weihan Wang
Hi All, I'm a newbie for SPARC. I'm not sure the purpose of the 13-bit context identifier in SPARC translation table entries. I searched through the SPARC architecture manual and the web but found no enough details regarding this identifier. PS: is there any other SPARC reference we (OS