RedHat on Sun Equipment
Bob Smith
bob at netprt.com
Fri Jun 18 15:53:58 UTC 2004
Get GNU make and tar as well. The Solaris versions are not quite as
robust or flexible as the GNU versions, and are a must for just about
anything that you make with GCC.
-Bob
Willem van der Walt<willem at top.health.gov.za> wrote:
> Hi,
> I do not know the model, but does it not have a sparc processor?
> There is a redhat version for sparc, but one would have to do a
> llittle more work.
> I think it is going to be easyer to just load the applications on the
> Sun box and use Solaris on it.
> Once you have gcc going opn the Sun, you can get most things working
> if it is open-source.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ted Beaton wrote:
>
>> I've spent most of my time running Solaris on Sun equipment. The
>> past 6 months I've been working with RedHat on intel pc's (as
>> "servers"). Management doesn't want to spend any money. I've got an
>> opportunity to pick up a Sun Enterprise 450 Workgroup server for very
>> cheap money. I would like to use it to replace a pc that has been
>> pressed in to service as a "server" but we are running RedHat on it.
>> I have a copy of Solaris that I could put on the 450 but the apps we
>> have on the "pc server" are running on RedHat now. I don't know if
>> it would be a seamless transition to move them to Solaris. Will
>> RedHat run on a Sun Enterprise 450 server without any special
>> configuration? Also, does anyone know if Sun's Solstice DiskSuite
>> will run on RedHat. It is a pretty good software RAID solution that
>> I am already familiar with. I'm sure there is another one out there
>> somewhere but I'd rather not learn another right now.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Ted
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