[sheffield-hacklab] Fwd: [SlugBug] Donation....

[Alan Dawson]

FYI ... we've had this donated.  With the 40Gb drive we have already got donated
it'll provide a reasonable file server to start with.

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Hi all,

I'm moving to sunnier climes in the New Year and am tidying up my
house of all the junk that I've accumulated over the years.  One of
the things I managed to get my hands on was a redundent Sun Ultra 10
from work.

I'd be delighted to donate it to any good cause who would be able to
put it to use (I see regular postings from the Burgreave Community
project, and various people who seem to install systems at schools
etc.).

A brief spec...

Sun Ultra 10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 360Mhz)
256Mb RAM
Complete set of Solaris 9 discs
5Gb HD (if I remember correctly)
17" Monitor
Sun Keyboard
2 CD-ROMS)

(The storage capacity etc. isn't great, but apparently, from what I've
read about them, the  Ultra 10's will 'accept' IDE HD's up to ~120Gb,
as well as standard CD/DVD IDE drives, so it would be easy to expand
its capacity).

You can read the system handbook (and links to more documentation) at

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U10/U10.html

I got the comp from my employers as it had been hacked a year or two
ago and taken off line and never used since (I set up a Linux server
to replace it).  I bought it home and have been playing around with it
intermitently since then.  I've done a stage 1 install of Gentoo, but
there are still a few problems that I've never managed to iron out
(mainly lack of understanding of the Suns boot loader, but I've been
too busy to have the time to resolve all the issues).

If you are interested then please email me.  If I wasn't moving I'd
keep it and play around with it more, but I really can't afford to
take it with me.



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