[csw-users] Newbie with SS10/Sol9 having problems.

[Thomas Amm]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:30:55 +0200
Ihsan Dogan <ihsan at dogan.ch> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 01 Jun 2005 23:25 +0200, Thomas Amm wrote:
> 
> > > I have been trying to use the blastwave software but I have a lot
> > > of problems. I have managed to install Solaris 9 on a
> > > SparcStation 10 with Twin Ross HyperSparc CPUs from a set of CDs
> > > I downloaded last year. I seem to have a lot of problems. Most of
> > > the small programs are fine, but I've been unable to get mozilla
> > > or gnome or kde to install.
> > > 
> > > Should I just toss this thing? ( I would have killed for one like
> > > it a decade (maybe a bit more than a decade) ago).
> > 
> > sun4m are no longer supported by Solaris, but you can still have fun
> > with it, running Linux or some BSD. I am running Debian-Sparc on a
> > Classic, it works quite good. It also ran well under OpenBSD.
> 
> This is true, but the first Solaris 9 releases are shipped with
> sun4m support.
> There is still Solaris 8 which has full support for sun4m.
> 
> 
> 
> Ihsan...
> 
Yes, of course. My Sun SparcClassic even ran Solaris 9,
but seriously, I couldn't find too much sense in running 
Solaris 9 on a 50MHz box - these things also have quite small
drives.
I mean running OpenBSD on it is still better than throwing it away.