[SunRescue] SS1 bookshelves

[Paul Khoury]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:57:06 +0000, P.A.Osborne wrote:

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>NO DONT GO THERE.  Its so painfull it makes me want to weep thinking 
>about it.

Too late Paul, it's about 60% done.
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>I just jope that you are using a Sun 2 speed CDROM drive so you have the
>full painfull experience.   

Trust me, my Plextor 4Plex is probably far worse - I'm using a Sony Caddy 4x
over the network to install - and it's actually going fast.
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>It was the jumbo patch that finally did it for me....

Yeah, those take forever.  Too bad Solaris doesn't have Tetris for Terminals
or other productive utilities to pass the time... ;-)h
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>> and yet another which I'm going to put Linux on - the 2 I have now are 
>> both loaded with 64MB of RAM... =)
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>I admit however that OpenBSD on a sparc 2 with 64MB is nice but 
>Solaris is just sooo painfull.
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Are you sure?  In terms of memory usage, yes, but speed, nah.  Runs on my SS2's
pretty well for that matter...