I am now the proud new owner of a Sun Sparcstation LX, I finally have taken the plunge. I must admit, I already love it more than my Alphastation and Wintel boxes, I can't believe that I had waited so long for this. I can't wait until I can afford a big-boy.
anyway to my question.
BACKGROUND INFO:
The box powers up, it has solaris 2.5 on it, I have no idea of how large the HD is on the box, but I do know that I have 48MB of memory. The box boots partially (I am accessing the computer via the serial interface), I get to a point where services are started, and it just seems to hang, I am not sure that this really matters to me however, as even if it did get to a prompt I have no account on the box and no way of knowing the passwords to any accounts that may exist on the box.
QUESTION 1:
What I really want to do is install solaris 9 on it, I have no use for X at this time, I really just want to be able to run a simple webserver, maybe e-mail as well, I will stick to working all of my X stuff on my P4, the web site claims solaris 9 will run on this machine however it also states that I need 600MB of HD space, and 64MB of memory, I have read though by others that it will run on less, like I said, no X, will this work?
QUESTION 2:
If question 1 is answered with a "yes" then I have a second question, how difficult would it be to perform a network install of solaris? I have no cd-rom drive for this machine, I do run plenty of linux and some FreeBSD, and have NFS running already, I am not sure if solaris uses NFS for network installs though.
QUESTION 3:
This one doesn't really matter to me but would there be any way to salvage the 2.5 install I have already, is there some type of "single-user mode" like in linux that I can access to repair it, might be fun to try even if I do install solaris 9.
anyway to my question.
BACKGROUND INFO:
The box powers up, it has solaris 2.5 on it, I have no idea of how large the HD is on the box, but I do know that I have 48MB of memory. The box boots partially (I am accessing the computer via the serial interface), I get to a point where services are started, and it just seems to hang, I am not sure that this really matters to me however, as even if it did get to a prompt I have no account on the box and no way of knowing the passwords to any accounts that may exist on the box.
QUESTION 1:
What I really want to do is install solaris 9 on it, I have no use for X at this time, I really just want to be able to run a simple webserver, maybe e-mail as well, I will stick to working all of my X stuff on my P4, the web site claims solaris 9 will run on this machine however it also states that I need 600MB of HD space, and 64MB of memory, I have read though by others that it will run on less, like I said, no X, will this work?
QUESTION 2:
If question 1 is answered with a "yes" then I have a second question, how difficult would it be to perform a network install of solaris? I have no cd-rom drive for this machine, I do run plenty of linux and some FreeBSD, and have NFS running already, I am not sure if solaris uses NFS for network installs though.
QUESTION 3:
This one doesn't really matter to me but would there be any way to salvage the 2.5 install I have already, is there some type of "single-user mode" like in linux that I can access to repair it, might be fun to try even if I do install solaris 9.