[SunRescue] CDROM recommendations etc for a ss10, linux

[Kurt A. Huhn]

> 
> I'll be installing redhat 6 on the machine, and I'm considering
> getting the ss10 its very own external cdrom drive. Now i'm a
> bit confused about the exact requirements for such a drive.
> Will any old SCSI drive do? What are the crucial questions to
> ask?
> 
> Also, the machine will hopefully not remain entirely headless
> for long, I just got hold of a 19" monitor (GDM-1962B - the full
> cubic metre ;) ), but I'm still short a graphics card (framebuffer)
> and keyboard/mouse. I'd be very pleased to hear about any source
> of either of these who would be interested in at least answering
> emailed requests.
> 

According to my sister's boyfriend (a Sun/Solaris admin) any "good" SCSI
CD-ROM will do, but sometimes booting from the CD requires some doing. 
I didn't quite undersand what he said, but there's some hardware jumper
config that you need to do in some cases.

I've seen some Sun CD-ROMs on ebay (http://www.ebay.com) recently.  The
final bid was about $100 I think.  You can check out the hardware
resources at the bottom of sunhelp.org's main page.  I've found some
really good deals on genuine Sun hardware there.

I've also seen some CG3 framebuffers at ebay.  I don't know what the
final bids were, but when I saw them they were about $30US. The problem
with ebay though, is that some folks don't want to ship overseas.  So
you take your chances when bidding on this stuff.


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Kurt A. Huhn
kurthuhn at k-huhn.com