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My cube neighbor decided to give me his Sunblade 150 because, after many months, he just wasn't using it. Very nice of him! So I decided to come in on the weekend and set everything up, including backing up all the old stuff. Can you tell I'm single?
It's definitely a bit zippier, so that's good.
I got DHCP to work this time around. Yay! No more manually entering IP addresses into the /etc/hosts file.
The Bad
Many of Sun's download pages don't render properly, or at all, with Netscape 4.x. That means I had to download files on my Windows box, ftp them to another Unix box (I couldn't seem to ftp directly to the Sunblade), and then grab the files with the Sunblade. In two cases, I merely mailed the files to myself as attachments. What a pain.
The Ugly
I don't have a hostname. Boo!
I'm back to Solaris 8. I didn't have a choice because this damned thing only comes with a CD-ROM drive, not a DVD-ROM. My only copy of Solaris 9 is on a DVD. It's just as well, I suppose, since it's closer to our dev environment.
Whoever designed this case has a mounting plate fetish. I remember having problems getting the PCI cards into the slots properly on the Sunblade 100 and the 150 was no better. I was also unsuccessful in my attempt to swap the DVD-ROM out of the 100. That mounting plate wouldn't budge.
So anyone, now I'm running a big, fat "smpatch update". This should take a while. ;)
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