[indiana-discuss] Installation options for an Ultra-60

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Gaylard <ag at computer.org> wrote:
> I have an Ultra-60 (2x400MHz CPUs, 2 GiB RAM, elite-3D graphics)
> and I'm keen to install OpenSolaris.  There are three wrinkles:
>
> - the box only has a CDROM, not a DVDROM
> - my OBP is 3.31.  That means that AI images won't work, right?
> - I don't have any other Solaris boxen, so jumpstarting is tricky (impossible?)

Just one question: have you tried to use solaris 10 with zfs root on
this system?
If no, I suggest you do. That would at least give some idea as to how
400-MHz CPUs perform with zfs root. I've been using a T2000 (16 core
@1GHz, I believe) and even that seems sluggish when compared to x86
servers.

If you goal is to learn about Opensolaris, x86 servers (or laptop)
would probably be a better place. If your goal is to resurrect this
box you might have better performance with Solaris 10 or SXCE using
ufs root, or even Linux.

That being said, as Jan mentioned installing opensolaris on that box
won't be easy. If you have other Sun sparc boxes it might be possible
to clone an existing installation manually.

Regards,

Fajar