[ILUG] Sun Equipment

[Ciaran McCabe]

Paul McCourt wrote:
>
> PROBLEM 1:- AUI network ports on the back, how is it possible to get the
> gear for this network connection or has anybody got any spare stuff at a
> good price? +inc a SCSI CDROM to get me going?
>
You'll need to get your hands on a few RJ45 transievers that will allow
you to connect to the network as usual.  Probably cheapest if purchased
from England but I may be wrong.

> PROBLEM 2:- Recomended Distro for these boxes?

RedHat will work fine with this hardware, albeit rather slowly, provided
they have enough memory.  I have a IPC running RH6.1 and a SparcStation
2 with OpenBSD 2.5 but neither will win any benchmarking contests. 
 
Best Regards,

Ciaran.

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