Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian
Hi list!
First i have to say sorry for the long posting ;)
I'm receiving a used Sparc5 this weekend. So i have a few questions
(of which some may be a little offtopic):
2GB SCSI-HD, 32MB-RAM, 2D Gfx card (fast for wireframe, i think), FDD
and
CD_ROM.
I have a bunch of official CD's (including Solaris - or is it really
Slowlaris :) - already on this machine. The machine is booting fine,
but...
The Gfx card seems to be a problem. We tried many different monitors
(all
of them should've been able to produce a normal screen) - but none of
them found any signal to display. Last we tried a monitor with fixed
frequency and finally got some output on the screen. The output was
scattered as if the Sparc and the monitor were not in sync or generally
use
and expect different frequencies. Hitting Alt-F(1-8) did change the
display
a bit and after a few more hits the screen went black and stayed black
until reboot.
I would like to use the Sparc as a Terminal (and more). But for this i
need to 'fix' the problem with the card.
If the card is really damaged and gone completely i would like to use
the
Sparc as a server in the background (maybe for serving X), backup and
stuff
like that.
The first thing for me is to install Debian :) (stable enough?)
The second thing may be to install Solaris (pro's, con's, suggestions?)
32MB RAM is not much. I would like to install a minimal System on the
Sun
and hope that memory will be enough to run without much swapping.
Is it illusionary to assume that the Debian base, a bit net, min. X
server,
and one or two additional daemons, packages will run without much
swapping?
And then there's the Gfx card. What to do? How to check? Any
suggestions?
I think i mentioned everything - if not, please ask...
Hopefully someone can help in this context,
i need this additional piece of hardware for serving :)
thanks in advance,
Mac
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