which distro for sun netra x1???

Randy Melder randymelder at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 09:01:22 MST 2007


It has Solaris 8 on it and I have Solaris 9 in a box next to my desk.
However, I just simply don't have the time to invest in learning it.
If I can't do it right, I'd rather pass.

The box is going to do some monitoring and have a non-public web
server running on it. That's about it.

; ) .randy

On 6/13/07, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to step on toes, but have you thought about Solaris?
>
>
> On 6/12/07, Randy Melder <randymelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Group,
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone can make a recommendation for a distro for me
> > to install?
> >
> > Basically, this super cheap sun box is sitting in my test rack totally
> > dark. It's got:
> > 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe
> > 512MB RAM
> > 2x80GB IDE drives
> > LOM (no video, no keyboard)
> >
> > Here's some really old installation instructions.
> > http://040.digital-bless.com/texts/installing_debian_linux_on_sun_netra_x1.html
> >
> > I would prefer to install CentOS on it, but there's no port. So...
> > other than Debian, what do people suggest???
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > ; ) .randy
> >
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