Subject: Re: SparcStation 10
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 15:17:48 AKST
Actually, this one has a 2.15G main drive and a 4.29G aux drive,
on-board nic and came with a Sun 19" color monitor. I have the Sun
keyboard, but someone apparently ran off with the keyboard-cable and
mouse.
I haven't figured out the processor and memory yet.
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 13:56, Shortpier wrote:
> I have a sparc server 10 Slowaris is way to slow on em and yes you can dual
> boot (but not worth the effort) Mandrake 7.1 runs nice on it.
>
> The problem is the sparc station/server 10 has no internal HD you have to
> have the external HD cage and and scsi CDROM for it. Also takes a High end
> monitor and a $60 dollar adapter to conect to a non sun monitor (need a
> multi freq with weird scan in it). It should have 1 or 2 40 mhz sparc1 CPUS
> in it. Mine has dual scsi, dual nics (one is on the scsi card and both Nics
> have the same MAC go figure). They make a nice X11 app server and file
> space do to the WIDE sparc bus, can handle lots of clients and traffic but
> the bus is SLOW (makes a nice NAT firewall box, web server etc) I normal
> mount a nfs file system from one of my other boxen for access to larger
> files etc as that generation uses a scsi2 (50 pin).
>
> Keyboard and Mouse are standandard sun hardware (any sun keyboard and mouse
> willl work) The Mouse plugs into the keyboard and the keyboard into the
> box.
>
> This help?
>
> Shortpier
> 10 mins, Bill Gates, and a Baseball Bat.... Is this to much to ask God?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Gribbin" <jewelrysupplier@gci.net>
> To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 3:24 PM
> Subject: SparcStation 10
>
>
> >
> > I scored a Sun SparcStation 10 someone was throwing out. Literally.
> > Pulled it from a dumpster. It seems to be reasonably complete except for
> > a keyboard-cable and mouse. Does anyone know where I could come up with
> > these items?
> >
> > Would also appreciate any tips or advise on setting up this thing. Will
> > probably put Linux on this thing unless it already has Solaris. Do these
> > things dual-boot?
> > --
> > Jim Gribbin <jewelrysupplier@gci.net>
> > Anchorage Jewelry Supply
> >
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