| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
stormynorman
n00b
Joined: 16 Nov 2003
Posts: 5
|
 Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
I have an Ultra 10, Creator 3 D, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB ide-HD.
gentoo (kernel 2.4.x) is up and running, even the sound works. I am using xfce and I am pretty happy with the speed the machine runs with.
Right now I am setting it up as my private computer for daily use as homecomputer and I am somewhat struggling finding the right applications for the daily tasks. most of them are not marked "stable" and I am not sure what the BEST WORKING ON SPARC applications are for e.g.
* listening to audio streams (realplayer and/or windows media streams)
* viewing pdf- files
* download music (p2p)
* which "open office" version is known to work? how about "lyx"?
would be nice if the forum also talked about those things and/or people posted some commented "world-file"......
thanks for reading my post and your time
cheers
Norman |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
chuckb
n00b
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
Posts: 3
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
Sun Blade 100
RAM 512M
18GB IDE
CD/DVD reader
floppy
Sony GDM 500 PS 21" monitor
Sun Type 6 USB keyboard + mosue
_________________
Charles C Berry |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pontious
n00b
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Posts: 4
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: |
|
|
hostname: lisp
Sun Ultra 250
Dual 400mhz procs
4x36GB SCSI + 2x18GB SCSI
2GB RAM
...still building gnome  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
leonarp
n00b
Joined: 22 Mar 2004
Posts: 35
Location: Kansas
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ultra30:
300Mhz
256MB
2x9GB
hostname: hactar
E4500:
8x336Mhz
2GB
D1000 array (12x9GB)
hostname: boac
Ultra 5:
hostname: chronos
336Mhz
128MB
1x9GB
Netra t1 105
hostname: zarquon
440Mhz
512MB
1x18GB
Last edited by leonarp on Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:45 pm; edited 4 times in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
traccer
n00b
Joined: 17 Jun 2002
Posts: 2
|
| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
Ultra 2 clone
2x300 2gig of ram.. 2x9gig drives gentoo installed
ultra 2 clone
2x200 1gig of ram 2x9gig drives gonna have gentoo next in line
ultra 2 clone
2x200 768megs of ram.. 9gig 4.5gig , gonna have gentoo
ultra 2 clone
1x 300 512megs of ram 9gig 2.1gig , gonna have gentoo
ss20
4x200mhz 512megs of ram 1 9gig .. most likely gonna end up with gentoo
ss10
2x85Mhz 256megs ram 2x4.5gigs will keep solaris on it as it will run the 6 sparcstorage fc arrays i have.. those now are stocked with 4.5gig drives totaling 108 drive.. can handle 180 drives.. plans are to order either 180 9 gig drives.. or if i can make sure they work move on up to 18 gig drives.. the box will be used just as a fileserver for storage
deals in the works..
2more ultra 2 clones .. would like to get a u60 and a e3000 or better.. maybe a 4500 or something.. also looking to pick up a ss1000 .. the very 1st sparc i got to use.. so i want to get one for home.. load it up with 8 - dual 150mhz or 125mhz cards(MUCH cheaper then going the dual 200mhz cards)
all those system are just home system and toys because im getting back into playing with linux as i havent in a few years |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
coweater
n00b
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
Posts: 5
Location: Texas
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Got a Sparcstation 20
Dual 85 MHz supersparc II
4 gig scsi
Apple 300 external cd-rom
144 mb ram
Leo fb
Runs quite nicely with a fresh 2004.1 install and currently windowmaker and going to try enlightenment, but it would be fluxbox if I could get it to build (tryed up and smp 2.4 kernels and i get g++ internal errors) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
rsidler
n00b
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 10
|
| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Several SUN Machines ... (U1, U2e, U5, U10, SunBlade 100, E150, E250)
Probably, I will have the chance to install it on a SunFire 6800,
would be very very nice!
Trying to run Gentoo 2.4 first on my Sun Blade 100 (with a Expert 3D lite
VGA Adapter, 768MB RAM)... Still trying... Framebuffer doesn't work
during boot:-(... (Read my post)...
Regards,
Roman |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
je_fro
Retired Dev
Joined: 14 Dec 2002
Posts: 236
Location: Republic of Texas
|
| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:09 am Post subject: Ya! |
|
|
I have 2 sparcstation 20's with several external scsi drives, (cg14 kicks ass!)
a ss10, an IPX running debian, and a 2x300 Ulra 60.
_________________
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
--Linus Torvalds
My site with some gentoo config files:
http://je-fro.net/page.html |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
seto
n00b
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Posts: 25
Location: Switzerland
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
got an ultra1 creator w/ 384mb ram, 2gb scsi disk (will be given to a friend soon) and a ultra 10 creator3d w/ usparc2i 333mhz, 256mb ram and 8gb slow ide disk
hope the promise sx4 sata controller works, i'll mod some additional 3.5" slots in then to have a 400gb raid5 (3x200gb) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
martinbishop
n00b
Joined: 16 Dec 2003
Posts: 66
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
Only have an ultra 1 @ 143MHz, 256MB ram, runs circles around the k6-2 I have.
If you've got a u2 you can part with and live in the US, message me ;P
_________________
"I'm too busy doing nothing to care." |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
toweruser
n00b
Joined: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 6
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
Ultra 10:
Ultra SPARC IIi @333 MHz 768 MB RAM
9 GB HD (IDE)
Kernel: 2.4.26-sparc-r2
KDE 3.2.2
TU
_________________
The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless. - Hugh Downs.
Learn to live freely, learn GNU/Linux! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sparc-kly
n00b
Joined: 28 Jul 2004
Posts: 5
Location: neptune
|
| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hostname :boxter
Sun Ultra 2
Dual 200mhz
512 ram
9.1gb hard disk
Gentoo Kernel 2.4.26-sparc-r2
Hostname : Ultra
Sun Ultra 5
270mhz
10gb HD
128 ram
currently running NetBSD 1.6.2
I love sparc hardware is vey stable 
i buy more ram and HD .
Last edited by sparc-kly on Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:12 am; edited 3 times in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ian!
Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Posts: 3829
Location: Essen, Germany
|
| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Sun Sparcstation 20
2*75 Mhz HyperSparc II Processors
128MB RAM
4GB HD
Sun Ultra 1
143 Mhz
256MB RAM
9.1 GB HD
_________________
"To have a successful open source project, you need to be at least somewhat successful at getting along with people." -- Daniel Robbins |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
HackingM2
Apprentice
Joined: 26 Jul 2004
Posts: 245
Location: Cambridge, England
|
| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
| bazik wrote: | | dontremember wrote: | | Still trying to decide what to do with it. No display adaptor/keyboard or I'd use it to replace my aging 500MHz Compaq Deskpro. |
I'd love to work with a head- and keyboard less box. Send it to me  |
You can have my two - have you any idea how long it takes to do anything when the netboot-kernel sets the tty to 9600bps!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
K-Line
n00b
Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 9
Location: Italy
|
| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ultra 10 IIi - 333 MHz - 512 MB RAM
9,1 GB HDD (IDE) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pinkeye00
n00b
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 1
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject: Sparc 10 :-D |
|
|
Sparc 10
Dual ROSS HyperSparc RT626 (2x150)
2xSeagate 4.5gb Drives
External 24x SCSI CDROM
Dual GX Video (1x19" - FP Samsung 191t w/ adapter, 1x21" Sun Monitor)
SUN Quad Ethernet Controller
Serial Controller Interface Card (for stupid stuff)
448mbs of ram (6x64, 2x32 - max banks)
Ultra 1 (just purchased)
200mhz Original CPU
128mbs RAM
2.1gb drive
50x SCSI CDROM
Thats about it. (for now)
I original put Redhat 6.2, then switched to SuSe 7.3, and now I'm back with Gentoo (go emerge! go!).
One is a workstation, the other is a head for a future beowulf cluster. Future project. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ck3k
n00b
Joined: 21 Sep 2004
Posts: 10
Location: Petaluma Ca
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
Neptune - 2x50mhz supersparc (1mb of external cache per processor)| SparcStation10
Helios - 110mhz SparcStation5
Apollo - 110mhz SparcStation5
Ra - Ultra 5 270mhz
comming soon :
Ultra 1 Enterprise - still need to get a nice large working sca scsi drive
_________________
~:CK:~ |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
GenTimJS
Guru
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 406
Location: NH, USA
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:52 am Post subject: New Systems |
|
|
Masamune
Ultra1, 170C3D, 128RAM,18GB HD, FFB
Gentoo - Mail/Web/Stuff server
Aquagon
Ultra5, 270, 64RAM, 4GB HD,PGX24
None - Not much at the moment till more ram shows up..
Alraune
Ultra5, 360, 128MB, 40GB HD, PGX24
Gentoo/Solaris9 - Secondary desktop, college schoolwork from my bed
Excalibur
SunBlade 1000, 750, 2048RAM, 40GB HD, FFB2+
Solaris 9 - Primary Desktop
I must say, that even under slowaris, Excalibur is -very- responsive. I plan on adding another CPU at some point, and am currently in the market for an Expert3d (or other frame buffer with texture ram, so I can play quake2 with reasonable FPS ...)
_________________
-Tim Smith |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
NetrixTardis
n00b
Joined: 21 Sep 2004
Posts: 12
Location: Selma, TX
|
| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:28 am Post subject: |
|
|
spitfire: Ultra1-170E (Creator3D)
UltraSPARC-I 170 (169mhz) 128mb RAM, 2x4.3gb HDD
Gentoo 2004.2 install
Linux spitfire 2.4.27-sparc #2 Sun Sep 19 22:15:32 CDT 2004 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) GNU/Linux
blackbird: Ultra2 Creator
2x300 UltraSPARC-II (2x296mhz) 256mb RAM, 2x9.1gb HDD
Solaris 10beta
-also the only one with the Sun monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
the Ultra1 runs headless machine to which i ssh into it. at this point, i haven't gotten around to doing anything but irssi, and letting it sick in an irpg channel... i'll get around to setting up the rest later on =P |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
rndpkt
n00b
Joined: 04 Mar 2003
Posts: 59
|
| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hostname: cirdan
Machine: Sun Ultra 10 Creator
Proc: Ultrasparc IIi 333Mhz
RAM: 256Mb
Drives: 2 x 4.3Gb, 1 x 120Gb 
Video: ATI Mach64
OS: Gentoo Linux/Sparc 2.6.7 + udev
Role: DHCP, DNS, NFS, NTP, Samba |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
rchan00
n00b
Joined: 30 Jun 2004
Posts: 29
|
| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:35 am Post subject: SunFire V210 |
|
|
SunFire V210
2 x UltraSparc IIIi
2 Gb RAM
2 x Sun 73G harddisks
Kernel 2.6.9 rc2
Sun XVR-100 (radeon)
from a Gentoo 2004.2 Stage 3 tarball
Not working:
X on XVR-100 (console fb ok)
SILO 1.4.x on disk (from 2004.2 CD ok; SILO 1.3.2 ok)
2.6.8, 2.6.9 fail to shutdown properly - there is a hard freeze
when init sends TERM signal to all processes (2.4.2[67] are ok in this
respect)
disklabel always fails with I/O error - have to "clone" the first few sectors
from a Sun-labelled disk to get it to "take" |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Emphii
n00b
Joined: 08 Oct 2004
Posts: 46
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I got three Ultra10 @440Mhz.
Two of them got 2x9GB/128MB/CDROM and
one of them got 2x20GB/128MB/CDROM. This one stays home others
goes to neighbour after Gentoo has been installed to them.
_________________
/tmp. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Swift
n00b
Joined: 09 Jun 2002
Posts: 51
|
| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: Re: What sparcs are people running? |
|
|
| torradan wrote: | | Since not everyone visits us on irc... |
is there a seperate gentoo-sparc channel?
i'm setting up gentoo on my Ultra 10 at the moment.
trying to get X up... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ciaranm
Retired Dev
Joined: 19 Jul 2003
Posts: 1719
Location: In Hiding
|
| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:07 am Post subject: Re: What sparcs are people running? |
|
|
| Swift wrote: | | torradan wrote: | | Since not everyone visits us on irc... |
is there a seperate gentoo-sparc channel?
i'm setting up gentoo on my Ultra 10 at the moment.
trying to get X up... |
irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-sparc |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
freshy98
Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jul 2002
Posts: 274
Location: The Netherlands
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I have three sparc machines.
Neverwinter: SparcStation 10, dual 50MHz/1MB cache, 224MB RAM, 2*2GB drives, second NIC, headless. Runs as my firewall/router.
Electron: Ultra 1, 167MHz/512KB cache, 256MB RAM, 4,5GB and 2,1GB drives, headless. Runs as my www, dhcp, ftp, tftp, nfs server.
Deuterium: Ultra 60, dual 450MHz/4MB cache, 1GB RAM, 2*18GB drives in RAID0 (need to put them on the dual channel scsi controller), Creator3D Series 3 (FFB2+). Runs as a workstation with Gnome 2.6, XChat, FireFox and Gaim mainly.
_________________
Mac Pro single quad 2.8GHz, 6GB RAM, 8800GT. MacBook. Plus way too many SUN/Cobatl/SGI and a lonely Alpha. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Gentoo on Sparc
