Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: Yes it is like lilo (I have not used grub), and there are no menu. How do you select from a menu without any key press, is grub mouse based? Sorry, the menu comes up without pressing any key. After this I have to select from a list of systems using the

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i had the choice, i'd go for the HW RAID. SW RAID is certainly possible, and it's cheap. but when you look at the administrative overhead, it's just not worth it. The salesman told us about the advantage of software RAID if (and only if as he

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Karl Hammar
-742 94 Östhammar +46 70 511 97 84 Computers Sweden Consulting --- From: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hardware question (urgent) Date: Mon

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Andreas Tille
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

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Karl Hammar
+46 70 511 97 84 Computers Sweden Consulting --- From: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware question (urgent) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: I don't know the german market. But I do know that my distributor have a presence in germany. Maybe you can call them and see if they have a partner who can solve your need. Wrote e-mail to a partner of them. Thanks for the hint! Boot manager

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Jim Mintha
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:07:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: In software raid the os uses its own partitions so the should not be any conflickt having both linux and solaris software raid For sure, but it would be interesting to have /home partition on RAID which could be accessed by both

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Karl Hammar
From: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware question (urgent) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:07:10 +0100 (CET) On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Karl Hammar wrote: I don't know the german market. But I do know that my distributor have a presence in germany. Maybe you can call them

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:10:02 +0100, Karl Hammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The plus is that you'll get support from your salesman. for whatever that is worth. i've not been impressed with the support that sun is offering. exchanging parts of the HW is ok with them. but once the problem

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-28 Thread Ari Heitner
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:56:44 +0100, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short answer: There is no apt-get. that's true. apt-get for solaris would be _great_. anyone up to create Debian GNU/Solaris? some binary only packages for

Re: Hardware question (urgent)

2000-11-27 Thread Ari Heitner
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: We have got a certain promotion offer which includes: 2 x 400MHz UltraSPARC-II CPUs, 2MB E-cache 2048MB memory 4 x 36GB 1RPM UltraSCSI disk drive (hotswap) Sun StorEdge DVD-ROM 10 drive 2 x 360 Watt Power supplies sounds like a