Re: How much memory installed? Other misc... Sparc 5

From: CJT (abujlehc_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:00:43 GMT

Lerner wrote:
> I have a Sparc 5 box here and I was wondering if there was any way to tell
> how much memory the machine was detecting.

It'll be in the banner when you first turn the machine on, along with
the serial number, hostid, etc.

>
> Also, any links to basic diagonstics for a Sun Sparc 5 would be appreciated!
>
> My Sparc 5 is an 85Mhz unit with 256meg of memory (I think), two 2gig SCSI
> drives internally, slim Sun internal CDRom and Turbo XGX framebuffer card.
>
> Everything seems to work, but being new to this I can't even get an OS
> installed with confidence.
>
> Any suggestions as to what OS to run? The box won't be dedicated to much,
> but I'd like to try configuring it as a workstation and/or web server.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 

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