Re: Debian Sarge in a e450
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda schrieb am Mittwoch, 09. März 2005 um 16:37:30 +0100:
> we have a Sun Enterprise 450 Server, and sadly by now is considered an
> obsolete machine. I have thought looking on the documentation of the machine
> that still is a good box (4 cpus and 512Mb ram). The only bad question are
> the hard disks.
Great machine :-)
>
> I have found in the web that this box is supported by linux and debian in
> particular (I think), and I would like to know if someone is using this box
> with a debian sarge and if it worsewhile to install a debian in that box.
Yes, works like charm :-)
> Also, I would like to ask, and please think that I'm a newbie in this
> architecture if it's posible to buy a normal pci card, for example a SATA
> controller, and (looking first the correct pci slot(about V) plug it in e450,
> and configure the driver if it's supoorted by the kernel, and that's all.
Even if the kernel would support this SATA controller, which I do not
know, I doubt that you can convince OpenBootProm to boot from disks
connected to this controller.
I bought some SCA disks at ebay.
--
Jörg Friedrich
There are only 10 types of people:
Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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