arkar said:I have this old computer and i wanna use it to learn freeBSD.
arkar said:Pls advice..
estrabd said:One of the boxes I am running FreeBSD on is an old Ultra 60 - dual 333 mhz....it's located about 90 miles away from me atm, and unfortunately my dumb butt locked myself out when playing with ipfw some time ago![]()
Exactly the same way as on a powerful machine. It only takes a lot longer. I can remember my first fbsd installs. Building world took pretty much most of the day. I currently can get it done in just under 2 hours.fender0107401 said:CPU and ram is so weak, how to recompile the kernel and the userland?
Disk space would indeed be a problem. Time probably isn't.Maybe you can install the ports tree, but how to compile some one, compilation time will too long and disk space also too small.
SirDice said:Exactly the same way as on a powerful machine. It only takes a lot longer. I can remember my first fbsd installs. Building world took pretty much most of the day. I currently can get it done in just under 2 hours.
Disk space would indeed be a problem. Time probably isn't.
SeanC said:I disagree. Part of learning FreeBSD is learning how to install and upgrade your ports. With only 10GB of HD, you will run out of space fast when using portupgrade. At the very least arkar needs more space to play.
I agree with dima's suggestion for virtualization, but it just isn't the same as learning on a real box. The last time I did a make buildkernel virtually (with VPC 2007) it took hours. On my home box the first buildkernel takes less time even though its specs were "less" than the virtual machine. Go figure.
ed@ said:Hello,
The only thing I'm saying is that I wouldn't use it to control my space shuttle.![]()
Oko said:I would not run FreeBSD on anything else except i386 and AMD64 (server only).
FreeBSD doesn't run on serious SUN hardware and it is not big deal anyway! SUN hardware comes bundled with very decent OS. FreeBSD doesn't even run on 4 year old Blades 1000 let alone on something newer. You are running machine which has only museum value. By the way those Ultra 10 are the worse machines in the Ultra series. I prefer Tauting 10 Ultra clones for that matter.foxi said:I am using FreeBSD 7.0 with Jails on several old Ultra 10 with 360 MHz processors for web application development, and it works absolutely great. Of course without X, but with Apache, mod_perl or mod_php and even PostgreSQL databases. Pure web server speed is comparable with three times faster P3 processors under Linux, virtual machines with Jails is just fun to setup. The only drawback for me is the lack of Java on FreeBSD/sparc64.
Oko said:FreeBSD doesn't run on serious SUN hardware and it is not big deal anyway! SUN hardware comes bundled with very decent OS. FreeBSD doesn't even run on 4 year old Blades 1000 let alone on something newer.
Oko said:Speaking of Ultra 10 speed. It is actually equivalent to PIII so I do not know why you are surprised. RISK stands for Reduced
Instruction Set so actual speed of Ultra in units equivalent to
Intel speed is 4x360Mh=1.44Gh.
Oko said:Of course that FreeBSD is faster on Ultra 10 than Solaris.
Solaris comes with many services turned on. It also comes with
X and not just any X. It used to come with Open Win which is old version of X window system.
It also supports accelerated X server unlike FreeBSD.![]()
From FreeBSD web-site of coursecajunman4life said:I've run FreeBSD/sparc64 on old and new sun hardware, with no problems. Where are you getting your info? Granted, I haven't tried on a blade 1000, but despite the old addage, one bad apple doesn't spoil the bunch.