Peter A wrote: > Jason, > > 5 will run solaris 10 with a few initial issues. You may have to install 8 or > 9 first and then do a firmware upgrade to get 10 to boot for installation. Also, > 512MB max will restrict you in what you can do. ZfS boot is possible but slow > and in general use, you want to reduce the size of zfs caches. > Finally, depending on the graphics card, you may not be able to get a > graphical login. But since you said your son wants to do cli f and knows all > the commands already, that wouldn't be such a big issue. > indeed, since it has one slow IDE disk and 512MB max, I would likely just format it as one big UFS root, and a gig or two of swap/tmpfs ... I would not use ZFS on that machine. If you do go the scsi controller route, and get two scsi disks, make one /export OH, and I just remembered. the Ultra 10 uses the same memory board, but has a little more room in the chassis, and supports 4 x 256MB tall dimms of the right type, for 1GB. you can get away with this in hte U5 by hacking a bit on the inside. catch is, the low profile 256MB modules that fit the U5 are kinda expensive, http://www.memoryxsun.com/mx7039al.html (2 of these kits). oh, same vendor cheaper on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-512MB-2x256MB-Sun-Ultra-5-10-low-profile-X7039A-L_W0QQitemZ110420793813QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Networking_Components?hash=item19b59799d5#ht_500wt_956 these tall ones will require a bit of kit bashing to fit, http://cgi.ebay.com/Sun-Ultra-10-Memory-1GB-4x256MB-50NS-X7039A_W0QQitemZ400089670137QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Workstations?hash=item5d2733e1f9#ht_500wt_956 .