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Got a free computer, need help getting it going

  • 20-12-2008 12:31pm
    #1
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Ok need a bit of help. Got a free computer through a friends work.

    Its a Sun Microsystems Sunblade 100. Inside looks grand 256mb ram, hard drive, graphics card, cd drive, cpu and heatsink.

    Now when i turn it on up pops

    Sun Blade 100 , Keyboard Present
    OpenBoot 4.0, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #12134241.
    Ethernet address 8:0:20:b9:27:61, Host ID: 80b92761

    with a white background with sun logo, and an "ok" prompt.


    Dont know what operating system is on this if any, i would be looking to wipe whatever is on it and install xp (have xp on disc).

    Anybody any pointers ???


Comments

  • #2
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    I would imagine that Sun Solaris is installed.

    I dont think you can install windows xp on Sun architecture.


  • #3
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    Basically im just looking to use it as another pc for surfing the web.

    How do i even load it up as it stops at the ok prompt?

    I know nothing about solaris.


  • #4
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    I dont know much either..

    You could try downloading and installing this?


  • #5
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Yes, another vote for Open Solaris (or indeed Solaris -- it's quite user friendly). There's a SPARC port of Debian as well.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#use
    try one of the LiveCD's to start perhaps


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