> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:15, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
>> This is inspiring me to save up for a loaded Sun E420R or E450 to run at
>> home and replace my Duron-based web/mail server.
> Whats your power bill like? :-D
>
> But seriously now. I'd like to try it just for the geek factor somewhere -
> is
> there a supported hardware list somewhere? How about US-III based
> hardware?
The beta doesn't support ESP controllers at this point, so E[3456][05]00
are out for now; I tried doing an HD install, but Anaconda threw a signal
11 (on hardware that is working fine under Aurora 2.0) before getting very
far. As the CD is on the ESP, makes it a little difficult.
E10K and similar don't have Linux support.
Not sure about kernel support for US 3; I don't have anything newer than
US II 400's here yet.
I installed it on an E450, but I think the E450 has some issues, as it
didn't run long. Not sure if prelinking is turned on; prelinking needs to
be set to default to OFF at least on Aurora 2.0 at this point, and I would
think the same would apply for CentOS 4.2 SPARC unless Pasi has fixed the
prelink problem.
Hardware available here for testing:
E6500 (Im' actually loading it down with the 400MHz 4MB ecache CPU's;
they'll only run at 360MHz on the 6500, but I have enough CPU's and boards
to load it down to 26 CPU's for testing, albeit running at 336MHz due to
the particular CPU/memory cards I have)(qlogic PTI to a D1000)
E5500 (qlogic PTI to a D1000)
E3500 (ESP hard disk there)
E450
U30
U10
U5
While I have an E6000, not sure I'm going to power it up, as if I load the
6500 down with 26CPU's there won't be enough cards to populate more than 4
or 6 CPU's in the E6000, and the drive arrays on it are old and wierd.
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Lamar Owen
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