Sun CD-ROM problems

Tue Nov 26 19:04:09 PST 2002

> And why waste an Ultra-10 on Solaris when you could be running a
> nice BSD? :)  Open/Net and FreeBSD all run on the Ultra10 (Freebsd,
> newly).  You have /usr/ports/, you have source, etc.

It will probably end up running Debian/SPARC, in fact.  (We have some x86 
Debian boxen, so I've learned about apt-get.)  But booting Solaris 8 from 
the CD is a fine torture test to be sure the drive is working.