SPARC IPC - Free to a good home

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: SPARC IPC - Free to a good home
We're retiring everything below the Sparc5s. I'm guessing the rest are going to
salvage and will be buyable from ASUs Surplus Property before the end of the
Fall semester.

> Using BSD and Linux I have been able to do tftp+NFS network installs onto hard drives
> as small as 200MB on Sparc Classic/IPC/IPX.
>
> Solaris versions greater than SunOS-4 won't work on these older units
> that usually still have 8MB of RAM.
>
> SunOS-4, back when Solaris was still BSDish. <sigh>


> > 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 :)