On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:15, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
This is inspiring me to save up for a loaded Sun E420R or E450 to run at home and replace my Duron-based web/mail server.
Whats your power bill like? :-D
But seriously now. I'd like to try it just for the geek factor somewhere - is there a supported hardware list somewhere? How about US-III based hardware?
The beta doesn't support ESP controllers at this point, so E[3456][05]00 are out for now; I tried doing an HD install, but Anaconda threw a signal 11 (on hardware that is working fine under Aurora 2.0) before getting very far. As the CD is on the ESP, makes it a little difficult.
E10K and similar don't have Linux support.
Not sure about kernel support for US 3; I don't have anything newer than US II 400's here yet.
I installed it on an E450, but I think the E450 has some issues, as it didn't run long. Not sure if prelinking is turned on; prelinking needs to be set to default to OFF at least on Aurora 2.0 at this point, and I would think the same would apply for CentOS 4.2 SPARC unless Pasi has fixed the prelink problem.
Hardware available here for testing: E6500 (Im' actually loading it down with the 400MHz 4MB ecache CPU's; they'll only run at 360MHz on the 6500, but I have enough CPU's and boards to load it down to 26 CPU's for testing, albeit running at 336MHz due to the particular CPU/memory cards I have)(qlogic PTI to a D1000) E5500 (qlogic PTI to a D1000) E3500 (ESP hard disk there) E450 U30 U10 U5
While I have an E6000, not sure I'm going to power it up, as if I load the 6500 down with 26CPU's there won't be enough cards to populate more than 4 or 6 CPU's in the E6000, and the drive arrays on it are old and wierd.