[Aurora-sparc-user] Confirm: aurora 2.0 running on a 128MB Ultra-5

[Stephen Griswold]

the poor thing is a bit overloaded with only 128mb memory, but, after the 
poor performance with Solaris 10, I decided to see what other flavors were 
out there for the SPARC.. I can confirm, Aurora
Version 2.0, installed from the DVD, is running perfectly! But, still a bit 
sluggish.

Has anyone used a USB board on the Ultra-5?  I'm looking at a concept of 
ganging 8 external
drives off USB to ATA adaptors.  So-far, working just fine under MEPIS and 
Knoppix,
but wondering if a 3rd party USB 2.0 multi-port board will work if plugged 
into the PCI
Buss?

My Ultra came via a Ham Radio flea market, no drive, and I had to wait a few 
weeks for the mouse
to arrive from the previous owner.  I plugged in a Western Digital 80GB 
ata-100 drive,
replacedd the LG CD-ROM drive with a Memorex DVD +/- ual-Layer R/RW CD-R/RW 
drive,
and fired off the 2.0 DVD burned from a identical DVD burner USB-Fed from my 
Laptop running XP-Home.

I also have a Penguin plugged into the Ultra, but no ideas how to use it. 
(several failed attempts to download software from SUN, I'm unable to test 
it.)

I also have a pair of Ultra-60's as of yet, Untested.. both appear to have 
dual CPU's. unknown how much memory (yet.. never plugged them in.) is there 
a way to trick it
into using a PCI IDE-133 interface board to connect IDE drives instead of 
the SCSI? finding SCSI-III's hard to locate.. (if not ultra fragile & 
expensive.)

notes, and tips appreciated..

Stephen Griswold

_________________________________________________________________
Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live 
Spaces 
http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us