Vicky Staubly <vicky@steeds.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Sean McKay wrote:
> > Just an informal poll here...I just setup NetBSD 1.6.2 on my ss20 and
> > am having fun setting it up. I'm curious what others are using it for
> > on this hardware...I've got 320MB of RAM and and decent HD -- it seems
> > a bit slow though. I'm going to put some web pages up on it and see
> > what kind of performance I can pull out of it...
> 
> I've got 2 SparcStation-2's... One, with 32MB of RAM and 400MB HD, with
> NetBSD 1.6, I'm using as DNS, NTP, and DHCP server; The other, with
> 64MB RAM and 4GB HD, and NetBSD 1.6.2, I'm using as my backup mail
> server. They're nice reliable machines, but I had to replace the NVRAM
> chips on them, and for some reason they won't boot-up automatically
> at power-up, I have to manually issue the "boot" command. I've checked
> that I don't have diag-switch? turned on. But now that I have them on
> UPS, it should be less of an issue.

In case this helps, i delt with something similar awhile back:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2002/10/14/0009.html



 -johan