[rescue] Java Station

[Steve Hatle]

On 11/27/02 10:33 AM, "paul savage" <paul5151 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just bought a Java Station Staion in the 611 box.
> Have several Sparc 20's and a Ultra 5.
> Anyone know where I can get software to configure all
> of this. I check bodoman.com but that site is no
> longer active. Does anyone know what happened to to
> him?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.


I have the next to last version of the NetraJ software someplace that will
allow you to boot and run a JavaStation. Setup wasn't too complicated, but
it wasn't trivial, either. Basically the host box has to be a tftp, NFS and
DHCP server, IIRC, or at least all those services have to be coordinated on
your network to get it to work.

I have to say, once you go through all that, the JavaStation experience
pretty much sucks. Slow, complicated to set up apps to be served to the
station, etc. At least it was that way with my dual proc SS20 serving the
one JavaStation I used to have. YMMV.

If I were to do it over again, and I probably won't since I got rid of my
JavaStation, I'd explore making it a Netbooted Linux box or something like
that instead.

If you still want to give it a try, contact me off list.

Steve