On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Marlon Ott said: > > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with > > you got ripped off. new sun blade 100s are going for > under $900(this was a year ago)
I'm hoping he means a SunBlade 1000, they cost upwards of $3000. I paid $1100 for a new 100 with a 15" LCD monitor. Well, actually, the company did not me personally. > > Well folks.... too bad I cannot load Debian. From the > > support site's "SunBlade 100" string it appears that I > > should remove my video card (ROTFLMAO), and type > > mystical undocumented commands at the SILO prompt > > while praying. > > is the blade listed as compadible? it is a rather > new piece of hardware, even older versions of solaris 8 > are not compadible with it. I am not suprised debian > would not load I have Woody running on a Blade 100. Works fine, except for the floppy. Something about the floppy being different than other Sun systems. No driver. I'm using it with KDE on a nice LCD monitor and am quite happy with it. You need to flash the firmware to boot from a CD, or else do a network boot, but it installs fine after that. You also have to select a pc-style keyboard, as the 100 has a USB keyboard that isn't compatible with the type 5. If you google around a bit you can find some HOWTO's on the 100's quirks, but it is eminently doable. I have mine set up to dual-boot with Solaris 9. -- -| Bob Hauck -| To Whom You Are Speaking -| http://www.haucks.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
