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
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