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I've got a Netra i22 (Dual CPU SSparc 75) with 256MB RAM and 9GB HDD... It's
now running Solaris 7 Server.

Is Sol7 Server the best for this ancient dinosaur? or is 8 or 9 better?

I understand 10 won't work at all with SuperSPARC...

How about Linux? since it's dual proc, I don't think BSD is the answer.

This is just to run some small DNS (BIND) for 8 or 9 hosts servicing minimal
requests, SMTP (sendmail) and http (apache). Currently, am running a
linux-based 486PC to host these services.

Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks

rgds,

- ron

In article <ct7iel$ia6$1@mawar.singnet.com.sg>, Ronnie Corny wrote:

>I've got a Netra i22 (Dual CPU SSparc 75) with 256MB RAM and 9GB HDD... It's
>now running Solaris 7 Server.

An uncommon machine indeed. Don't see many around at all.

>Is Sol7 Server the best for this ancient dinosaur? or is 8 or 9 better?

>I understand 10 won't work at all with SuperSPARC...

No, Solaris 10 requires UltraSPARC II CPUs, which Sun handles by stating
CPUs faster than 200Mhz.

>How about Linux? since it's dual proc, I don't think BSD is the answer.

Not on SPARC hardware. If you want an open-source platform for that
machine, try OpenBSD - works quite nicely.

>This is just to run some small DNS (BIND) for 8 or 9 hosts servicing minimal
>requests, SMTP (sendmail) and http (apache). Currently, am running a
>linux-based 486PC to host these services.

The SPARC will kick the legs off the 486 in real terms for that job.

>Any advice would be welcome.

Enjoy your unusual machine, and consider getting your hands on an
UltraSPARC based machine - they really get work done.

--
Andre.

Email: andre at africa dot purplecow dot org.

In article <ct7iel$ia6$1@mawar.singnet.com.sg>, Ronnie Corny wrote:
> I've got a Netra i22 (Dual CPU SSparc 75) with 256MB RAM and 9GB HDD... It's
> now running Solaris 7 Server.
>
> Is Sol7 Server the best for this ancient dinosaur? or is 8 or 9 better?

Solaris 9 would run fine on that box.

> I understand 10 won't work at all with SuperSPARC...

Indeed, the sun4m architecture is not supported by Solaris 10.

> This is just to run some small DNS (BIND) for 8 or 9 hosts servicing minimal
> requests, SMTP (sendmail) and http (apache). Currently, am running a
> linux-based 486PC to host these services.

I have a SPARCserver 5 with 70 Mhz that runs BIND with more than 100
frequently used zones, handles more than 50.000 emails per day, and
serves a dozen domains per HTTP (Apache). It survived even happily
a severe attack where an accidently open relay in our network forwarded
tons of emails through this server which led to a load level > 100.
Even then my shells on that box where still responsive.

(But it took nearly 2 hours today to compile BIND 8.4.6-REL on that box).

Andreas.

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Helmholtzstrasse 18, E02, Tel +49 731 50-23572 | eigenen Verstandes zu
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/borchert/ | bedienen! -- I. Kant

ronnieDELMEcorny@yahoo.com (Ronnie Corny) writes:

>How about Linux? since it's dual proc, I don't think BSD is the answer.

NetBSD 2.0 will work fine on SMP sparc systems. SMP is only unsupported
on UltraSparc.

>This is just to run some small DNS (BIND) for 8 or 9 hosts servicing minimal
>requests, SMTP (sendmail) and http (apache). Currently, am running a
>linux-based 486PC to host these services.

I'd go for NetBSD :-)

gert
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Ronnie Corny wrote:

> I've got a Netra i22 (Dual CPU SSparc 75) with 256MB RAM and 9GB HDD...
> It's now running Solaris 7 Server.
>
> Is Sol7 Server the best for this ancient dinosaur? or is 8 or 9 better?
>
> I understand 10 won't work at all with SuperSPARC...
>
> How about Linux? since it's dual proc, I don't think BSD is the answer.
>
> This is just to run some small DNS (BIND) for 8 or 9 hosts servicing
> minimal requests, SMTP (sendmail) and http (apache). Currently, am running
> a linux-based 486PC to host these services.

An interesting machine, AFAIK it is based on the Sparc 20.
Splack Linux http://www.splack.org/ should work OK but
has not been tested on your machine.

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In comp.unix.solaris Ronnie Corny <ronnieDELMEcorny@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've got a Netra i22 (Dual CPU SSparc 75) with 256MB RAM and 9GB HDD... It's
> now running Solaris 7 Server.
>
> Is Sol7 Server the best for this ancient dinosaur? or is 8 or 9 better?
>
> I understand 10 won't work at all with SuperSPARC...

You're right about Solaris 10--no support for less than an USII.
I would highly recommend upgrading to the last version supported on the
4m architecture--Solaris 9. Then you can see just how much work that
ancient machine can actually do.

Colin

* Colin B wrote:

> You're right about Solaris 10--no support for less than an USII.

Does this mean that it won't work on slower ultra 2s? Sol9 used to
just whinge about the 64bit stuff. Will be slightly annoying if so
(but I guess not surprising).

--tim

In article <ey3brbbp25r.fsf@cley.com>, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> * Colin B wrote:
>> You're right about Solaris 10--no support for less than an USII.
>
> Does this mean that it won't work on slower ultra 2s?

Indeed, the models with 167 or 200 MHz are not supported :-(

Andreas.

--
Dr. Andreas F. Borchert, SAI, Universitaet Ulm | Habe Mut, dich deines
Helmholtzstrasse 18, E02, Tel +49 731 50-23572 | eigenen Verstandes zu
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/sai/borchert/ | bedienen! -- I. Kant

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tim Bradshaw wrote:

> Does this mean that it won't work on slower ultra 2s? Sol9 used to

That's correct, at least for now. I wouldn't be at all surprised
if one of the first OpenSolaris projects was the reintroduction
of support for US-I CPUs (at least in 64-bit mode).

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:48:27 GMT, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
>
>> Does this mean that it won't work on slower ultra 2s? Sol9 used to
>
> That's correct, at least for now. I wouldn't be at all surprised
> if one of the first OpenSolaris projects was the reintroduction
> of support for US-I CPUs (at least in 64-bit mode).

Hmmm, I wonder if anyone is interested in adding sun4m and VME support
to OpenSolaris. Too bad Sun isn't releasing any code for their older
releases that supported sun4c, etc. I'd like to put my old IPI drives
to work again.

Brian