reintro and pkgng aghastness

zenxyzzy zenxyzzy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 01:43:17 UTC 2015


https://web.archive.org/web/20150204014108/http://www.ezplanet.net/xwiki/bin/view/KnowledgeBase/SunUltra5Overclocking

--curt

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:29 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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