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Fixing the Netra i Internet Server from Sun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James G. Stallings II -- NetAdmin)
Mon Apr 15 15:04:45 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:19:47 +0600 (GMT+0600)
From: "James G. Stallings II -- NetAdmin" <zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
To: Linux-Net Mailinglist <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: netheads@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us
Hello Again,
I guess it's my turn to display my ignorance:
We have on our network a Netra i Internet server. It was purchased as
part of a package from a company in Texas called SabreData. I think it
was their intent to sell us this machine and then harvest a hefty
maintenance fee. They did not anticipate the "do-it-yourself"
resourcefullness of our network administration staff ( me :)
What I would like to do with this machine is sanitize it (i.e., ditch the
SunOS), and install a more reasonable operating system (Linux) on it.
I have investigated the possibility only briefly when we got it, by
trying to boot Linux on it from a kernel boot-disk (sans lilo). It ate
the disk and turned it into some sort of Sun Netra configuration disk. I
eventually got the disk back out of it with a paperclip.
I am getting some minimal use out of it at present by letting it be a
cacheing-only secondary nameserver, but this is an incredible waste of
space, money, and processing resource. I would truly like to see it doing
what it is purported to do best, i.e., taking lots of hits on the web.
Any Suggestions? Pointers to distributions?
Thanks Much-
James
<zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
"Every Day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."
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