Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-10 Thread Ian Collins
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Sunday 09 October 2005 02:50 pm, Ian Collins wrote: Google is your friend: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U5/U5.html Heck, forget google...open the case up and look inside! Will do most people some good to know what the inside of their computer

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-10 Thread Jason W
Are you kidding, in 1998/1999 before I even had ever touched solaris, I was doing a large computer move on the floor of a building that had a lot of DBAs and nearly every one of them had both a PC and an Ultra 5 (with the excessively whiney Seagate drives) I asked one of the guys doing the move

[osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Thomas
I have checked the sessions menu and it only has CDE. It is worth me upgrading to 10 at this stage? How difficult is it to install? What is the easiest way to get gnome? I have limited experience with debian so this would probably be the easiest way to get me started This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Ian Collins
Thomas wrote: I have checked the sessions menu and it only has CDE. It is worth me upgrading to 10 at this stage? How difficult is it to install? What is the easiest way to get gnome? I have limited experience with debian so this would probably be the easiest way to get me started

[osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Thomas
sorry for all the stupid questions but can any one tell me what I have? I have a sun ultra 5, is this a SPARC or a x64/86? I don't really understand the difference, would someone care to enlighten me? I guess it is a x64 because I think I read somewhere that the ultra has a 64 bit procesor

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Thomas wrote: I have checked the sessions menu and it only has CDE. It is worth me upgrading to 10 at this stage? How difficult is it to install? What In your original posting, you said that you had a sparcstation. Which model (specifically) do you have, as only

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Ian Collins
Thomas wrote: sorry for all the stupid questions but can any one tell me what I have? I have a sun ultra 5, is this a SPARC or a x64/86? I don't really understand the difference, would someone care to enlighten me? I guess it is a x64 because I think I read somewhere that the ultra has a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread James Lick
Thomas wrote: sorry for all the stupid questions but can any one tell me what I have? I have a sun ultra 5, is this a SPARC or a x64/86? I don't really understand the difference, would someone care to enlighten me? I guess it is a x64 because I think I read somewhere that the ultra has a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Thomas wrote: sorry for all the stupid questions but can any one tell me what I have? I have a sun ultra 5, is this a SPARC or a x64/86? I don't Ah, OK, that answers my previous question. Good news: the Ultra 5 is based on the UltraSPARC-IIi CPU, so is indeed supported

[osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Thomas
Thank you for all the help, this is by far the most helpful forum I have ever chanced upon, I will be using it again in future, and might even ask some less noob-like questions as I progress (maybe even answer some). Thank you all, Thomas This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 09 October 2005 02:50 pm, Ian Collins wrote: Google is your friend: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U5/U5.html Heck, forget google...open the case up and look inside! Will do most people some good to know what the inside of their computer looks like, and they just