[tech] New Clubroom Machine: Sidderrog

[Daniel J. Axtens]

I was trying to install OpenSolaris with the help of [CJS] just after
we got the machine, but I was getting bad magic number in disk label
errors (or something to that effect, I forget the exact words).

My suspicion was that the OpenBoot PROM was out of date and needed
patching before it would load the CD.

Did you have any issues with that, or did everything boot without any
extra work?

Thanks,
[DJA]

2009/8/3 James French <frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>:
> Hi All,
>
> Trs80 and I setup debian on one of the Sun Blade 150s we recently
> acquired from EECE. In keeping with the tradition of naming clubroom
> Suns after fish starting with S, Rufus selected the name Sidderrog
> [1].
>
> The machine is setup with /away and user logins. As a reference, these
> boxes aren't happy with the xorg drivers that are bundled in Lenny.
> After much prodding Trs80 was able to get X to work by upgrading from
> Lenny to testing.
>
> At present X works but not much other than xdm is installed. As this
> box doesn't have a great deal of processor or memory, we probably want
> to think about whether or not we want to actually install desktop
> environments on it or have it connect via XDMCP to mersau.
>
> [JCF]
>
> [1] http://fishbase.org/ComNames/CommonNameSummary.php?autoctr=74446
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