Hey Bman, Bert here. As with Steve, I'd be interested in a Sparc 5. Let me know what the freight is. Don't worry about the PII's they're a dime a dozen here. I'm in New Zealand, about 500 Km south of Steve. Cheers, Bert On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 09:24, BMan wrote:FYI. I have two Gents interested in the PII equipment. To make it a viable solution, Each will receive enough machines for a lab and I'm going to throw in an IBM Netfinity 5000 server and insure each station has a NIC card. No promises on finding a switch or Hub but I'll try. :) If the shipping/pick up arrangements fall through, I let everyone know they're still available. For those of you who missed out, I still have some sparc 5's left. They'll run solaris 7 and/or Aurora Sparc Linux. In time I may also come up with some more clients. Regards, BMan BMan wrote:If anyone needs more PII class machines for terminals, I have a bunch I can part with. I also have a gang of sparc 5's that can be used as terminals, firewalls and/or stand alone Solaris or Aurora Sparc Linux machines( http://auroralinux.org/ ) based on the 7.3 Red Hat distro, I've mentioned Tom Callaway (Spot) in other postings. These are 32bit machines and I have incorporated them into LTSP setups before. They run much quicker as terminals than stand alones however they are not that bad seeing they use a 32bit kernel. There are a few steps to take for them to be integrated into an LTSP setup however, since Sparc uses the Open Boot Eprom no boot disk or HD is needed what so ever it is not that hard to setup. :) These machines are 110Mhz (remember 32bit though) 128Mb of Ram most have floppies and nics and frame buffers. All have a couple of HD's in them along with a basic Solaris 7 load if you just want to run them as stand alones and give the kids expericne with solaris. Any takers? If so, you pay shipping and they're yours. :) Let me know if your interested and I will fill requests using FIFO (first in first out) approach. Regards, BMan _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN redhat com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>_______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN redhat com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>_______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN redhat com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>