SPARC IPC - Free to a good home

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:39:57 -0700


At work I setup a Sparc20 to act as a boot server for all the other sparc
machines that needed upgrading to Solaris 9.  Too bad the Sparc10s and 5s don't
have the hard drive space for it (takes 2GB and most of them have 1.2GB or
smaller drives).

Back to reading the JumpStart docs :)

> I have a SparcStation IPC that until Wednesday used to be my DNS server.
> It has been replaced with a SPARC-10 so I will give the system away
> to the the first person to email me that wants to give it a good home.
> 
> It has OpenBSD 2.8 pre-installed and it used to run Debian Linux
> before that with no problems.
> 
> It is setup for DHCP but I will give it an IP address if requested.
> The root password has been reset and will be given to the new owner.
> 
> It has no monitor,keyboard or mouse, I access it via serial-null modem
> cable or SSH. All you get is the unit as-is and the power cord.
> You will need to buy an AUI Transceiver to hook it to Ethernet Hub or Switch.
> 
> If you have never typed "boot net" and want to learn how to do a "boot net"
> then maybe this would be a good learning system for you.
> 
> See dmesg,ps,netstat output below for system details.
> 
> If no one wants to claim it by Tuesday, in the trash it goes.