I am sorry I was not able to clarify on the thread I started sooner (busy day...) Thanks for everyone's input on the performance between Solaris and Linux. I do mean the clear plastic holder for an internal disk drive on a Sparc5. I got a replacement disk off the web (cheap) that was supposed to include the "kit" which the guy I talked too said that the kit included the plastic mounting thingy. I am running Solaris8 on a Sparc5 80Mhz cpu and 256MB memory. I haven't been too disappointed overall, but I had a pc running Linux 6.2 on 400Mhz and 256MB memory and I liked my pc better. Stupid question, but what would be the best way to go about removing solaris and installing linux. Is there a preferred distro? Matt. jethro at yaron.org wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu: > > > > > Does anyone have a Sparc5 "disk caddie" they wold be willing to > > > > part with? > > > Disk caddie, meaning cdrom caddie? > > I think he means hard disk caddie. > > Hmm. Your idea makes a lot more sense than the CD thing (I though he means > cdrom caddie too.. we'll have to wait and see!) > > > In the Sparc 5 (and 1, 2, 10, 20, etc), you strap your hard drive into a > > little plastic (or metal) caddie and then secure the caddie in the case. > > It's weird, but that's what they chose to do. > > It's less weird than sticking it in a case and looking for a way to get to the > screw holes. The SPARC1-20 are pretty much like lego on the inside... > > -Yaron > > -- > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Matt Thoren MTT Computer Consulting Inc. 2633 Fremont Ave. North Minneapolis, MN 55411 mthoren at mttcc.com http://www.mttcc.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010404/ced57bc9/attachment.htm