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- From: wolf@merlin.mt.att.com (Thomas Wolf)
- Subject: Re: SPARCclassic questions
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- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:07:22 GMT
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- In article GK6@rice.edu, fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot) writes:
- "> "hello,
- "> "
- "> "I have a few questions about the SPARCclassic:
- "> "
- "> "1) I assume the OS comes preinstalled, but what if I want to reinstall it?
- "> "Does a CDROM come with the machine (and boot disks)?
-
- Your assumption is incorrect. Solaris does not come pre-installed. And if you
- don't buy the Solaris CD and a CD-ROM player (if you aren't connected to a network
- that has a CDROM and/or Solaris) you might as well use the Classic as a door-stop,
- because it's useless straight out of the box.
-
- "> "3) how much space is left on the 207 Mb HD after the OS is installed?
- Don't know for sure, but I don't think there's much if any space left if you
- install the complete Solaris distribution and assign about 32Meg for swap (if I
- remember correctly, on my LX the entire distribution took up about 170Megs.)
-
- "> "9) what's a good price for classic memory?
-
- I asked this question awhile back and some folks said that they got 16Meg SIMMS
- for as little as $570. Since you need at least a pair, I'd say you will have
- to part with about $1100.
-
- "> "10) does the HD have to be reformatted if the machine is turned on its
- "> "side?
-
- Why would it have to - because some bits would fall off? (Sorry, couldn't resist
- that one :-)
-
- Hope this helps,
- Tom
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