reintro and pkgng aghastness

Tue Feb 3 23:30:31 UTC 2015

No, like he wrote, the only reason why the U5 was "limited" to 512 MB was
that the tall modules wouldn't fit, because the space was occupied by the
floppy drive.
Low sticks fit nicely under it. There are low profile sticks with 256 MB
each.
The U5 runs 1GB RAM exactly like an U10.

Den onsdag 4. februar 2015 skrev Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
følgende:

> really, you found a way to get to 1G?  I thought only 512 was possible even
> with the weird tall sticks?
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:53 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > I've also had luck putting the tall memory modules in an ultra 5, bumping
> > it to 1G ram.  this did take me removing the (quite useless) floppy
> drive.
> > later, I got some X7039A's, which are low-profile versions.  then I got
> > room to put another 3.5 inch drive in.
> >
> > --curt
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> hmm, got the 2013 version on CD.  It made it pretty far along but
> crashed
> >> and burned whilst loading the miniroot, or whatever they call it, to
> >> ramdisk.  Memory's just too darn small.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:11 AM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've had luck putting a sata to scsi adaptor on a DVD.  should be able
> >>> to boot that.  also, there's plenty of IDE dvd's around.  you'd have to
> >>> open the ultra 5 up, though :->
> >>>
> >>> --curt
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Was just about to do that - I have it running on my T1000.  But
> >>>> Martin's open source politics scared me a little a few months ago - he
> >>>> pulled everything OpenSXCE-related from the Internet and there was no
> >>>> recourse for the OpenSXCE user community.  Maybe it's worth another
> go now
> >>>> that that appears to be sorted out.  Unfortunately there's no way for
> me to
> >>>> load the 2014 bits on my Ultra5 as it's a dvd-only release :\
> >>>>
> >>>> thx
> >>>> jake
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> There's another option that maybe you shouldn't ignore.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> OpenSxce.  it's illumos plus a lot of hackery minus a lot of
> stupidity
> >>>>> for Sparc.  I run it happily on my Sun Blade 1000.  modern ZFS and
> >>>>> everything.
> >>>>> XVR-1000 support.  root on SSD.  fan control support - this clinched
> >>>>> it for me.  neither linux or freebsd can turn the freaking fan off
> or down.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> plus source.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> plus, runs solaris 11 binaries from that "O"ther company.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> get it from opensxce.org
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --curt
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jacob Ritorto <
> jacob.ritorto at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> >>>>> > wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>   I'd been away from FreeBSD for fifteen years, but I'm back and I'm
> >>>>>> pleased to announce that I'm using a computer that's from around the
> >>>>>> time I
> >>>>>> left FreeBSD :)  It's a nice little Sun Ultra 5.  Bone stock;
> doesn't
> >>>>>> even
> >>>>>> look like the case has ever been open. I recently had to stop using
> >>>>>> Solaris
> >>>>>> because they're became evil and Illumos because they're kind of not
> >>>>>> supporting this hardware anymore.  I tried OpenBSD, but its
> >>>>>> applications
> >>>>>> just crashed.  So here I pragmatically am.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   I like FreeBSD.  I didn't leave out of disgust or anything; mostly
> >>>>>> just
> >>>>>> employment being all-Sun years ago.  So it's cool revisiting it and
> >>>>>> seeing
> >>>>>> all the changes and all the stayed-the-sames.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   I'm pretty exited about the new FreeBSD pkgng system.  I had the
> >>>>>> extreme
> >>>>>> pleasure of using it whilst installing my SPARC last night (which,
> >>>>>> unfortunately, took from mid evening until around 4:30 in the
> >>>>>> morning. (I
> >>>>>> didn't have any cds or floppies at my disposal, so I instead built
> the
> >>>>>> network / diskless system installl on a virtualbox vm on my Mac and
> >>>>>> installed FreeBSD to the SPARC from there).  Good old
> >>>>>> rarp/boopt/tftp/nfs!
> >>>>>> Reminded me of Sun Jumpstart!  I was really pleased that this way of
> >>>>>> doing
> >>>>>> things still works on FreeBSD  Truly a slick and smart design.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   But is it true that I can't actually use pkgng on my real computer
> >>>>>> because It's not a PC?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   I've been looking around the Internet for some hours, now, to no
> >>>>>> avail.
> >>>>>> Are there seriously *no* package repos for SPARC?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   If that's the case, I'd like to help remedy it.  I've read around
> >>>>>> on how
> >>>>>> to contribute, but it seems none of what's out there pertains to
> >>>>>> pkgng for
> >>>>>> sparc.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   Please let me know if I'm understanding the situation right and
> how
> >>>>>> I can
> >>>>>> help, if help is wanted.  I have a lot of SPARCs and they need a
> >>>>>> trustworthy operating system with software package system that
> >>>>>> doesn't have
> >>>>>> to be manually-wrought.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "Oh, wow, it just finished its five-plus-hour ports build of
> freaking
> >>>>>> tmux!"
> >>>>>> jake
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> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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