[clue-tech] Modern/Current SPARC Linux Distros

[Richard Knechtel]

I'm surprised it complained. Mine came with a 9 gig IDE HD and I threw in an
old 27 GIG IDE drive and it worked without a problem. But that was Solaris
9, I haven't tried 10 yet. What you could do is mount the old solaris HD to
a Linux box (I think LInux supports Solaris file systems) and wipe the
password in the shadow file then reboot back into the drive and you should
be able to get in as root with no password. This is just a guess, I haven't
tried this with solaris myself. I know it works with Linux. :^)


On 7/8/07, Tony McDowell <svet.am at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I already have the Solaris 10 media kit (includes x86, x64, and SPARC
> installers) but it's been complaining about the larger hard disk that I
> threw in the box.  If I could somehow root the Solaris install that is
> already on it, I might very well leave it alone based on these words of
> wisdom.
>
> -tony
>
> On 7/8/07, Richard Knechtel <richard.knechtel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I got a Sparc Ultra-10 on ebay, I didn't find a Linux distro I really
> > liked
> > that worked as well as solaris does on sparc hardware. You can get
> > Solaris
> > for free, just go download it. I am running solaris 9 but am working on
> > getting ready to install solaris 10 soon. I would go with the solaris 10
> > install. Watch the memory though. Check if it starts throwing errors.
> > When
> > I got my Ultra-10 it was a great deal, however the memory was throwing
> > errors (memory starting to go bad). Be forwarned SPARC memory is
> > exspenive!!!!
> >
> >
> > At 10:53 AM 7/7/2007, Tony McDowell wrote:
> > >I just got back from yardsaling where I got a fabulous deal ($5.00) on
> > a
> > >SPARC Ultra 5.  Anyone got any opinions on which SPARC distros would be
> >
> > >good to throw on it.  I know it's got the 360MHz proc with 128MB of
> > memory
> > >(currently -- the memory will be upgraded later).  I've got a Solaris
> > 10
> > >install DVD around here as well, which I might try too.
> > >
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