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

[Alan Dawson]

The Ultra 10 arrived :-D

anybody up for putting debian unstable on it  ? at the next meet Thursday 1
december 2005 ?


Quoting Alan Dawson <aland at burngreave.net>:

> 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.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> 
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