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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:58 AM

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!

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:58 AM

Lerner wrote:
> 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.

It'll be in the banner when you first turn the machine on, along with
the serial number, hostid, etc.

>
> 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!
>
>

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 08:00 AM

"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

#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 08:00 AM

Keg <rhugga@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> prtdiag tool is very usefull for a quick glimpse at your hardware and
> etc...
>
> It is in /usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/

There's only two version of `uname -m` where prtdiag exists - sun4u and
sun4u1 (in OSes where that actually exists). Sparc 5 is sun4m and thus
prtdiag won't be there.

Scott

#5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 08:23 AM

Lerner wrote:
> 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.

memconf can also show the DIMMs installed in the banks ...

http://myweb.cableone.net/4schmidts/memconf.html

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