reintro and pkgng aghastness

Wed Feb 4 01:30:36 UTC 2015

it also runs the 440 mhz ultrasparc.  the specs say 400 is the limit, but
hey, 10% more cpu is there, too.  just don't overclock it - I did fry one
440 mhz cpu that way.

--curt

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Torsten Kirschner <
torsten.kirschner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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>
>> > 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> 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>
>> >>> 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>
>> 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
>> >>>>> > 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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