"Lerner" <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:<dRhfd.29004$Pl.25276@pd7tw1no>...
> I have a Sparc 5 box here and I was wondering if there was any way to tell
> how much memory the machine was detecting.
>
> Also, any links to basic diagonstics for a Sun Sparc 5 would be appreciated!
>
> My Sparc 5 is an 85Mhz unit with 256meg of memory (I think), two 2gig SCSI
> drives internally, slim Sun internal CDRom and Turbo XGX framebuffer card.
>
> Everything seems to work, but being new to this I can't even get an OS
> installed with confidence.
>
> Any suggestions as to what OS to run? The box won't be dedicated to much,
> but I'd like to try configuring it as a workstation and/or web server.
>
> Thanks!

prtdiag tool is very usefull for a quick glimpse at your hardware and
etc...

It is in /usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/

There is also memconf, which is very usefull. It will tell you the
board/cpu associated with a specific dimm. (I think memconf is not a
default binary on Solaris 9, you can get it at sunfreeware.com though)

-chuck