Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:27:56 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUNRays Message-ID: <3FD4ECDC.5070807@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <86fzfvxnaj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <3FD24741.5000100@crowncollege.edu> <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org> <86fzfvxnaj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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[CCed to -sparc: Can SunRay boxes be made to work with FreeBSD?] Chris Shenton wrote: > Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> writes: > > >>They are *really* thin clients that really only consist of a >>monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their host server for >>everything else. That's not an architecture that you're going to get >>FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think. > > I suspect that if the SunRays do a PXE boot then they can be given > addresses by DHCP, boot files via TFTP, and filesystems via NFS -- > just like any other diskless client. There's the thing - I don't think that the Rays are capable of doing something like that. If you look at http://wwws.sun.com/sunray/sunray150/features.html which is a list of features for the most 'advanced' SunRay that is available - you'll see that, "All computing is performed on the server". In other words, there is no local processor - nothing to run a local FreeBSD kernel (or anything else) on. The rays depend entirely on their host server for all computation, I don't think they even have any local memory so they are not simply a diskless box in the usual sense - as they would normally have local CPU and memory. However, like I said before if they can be made to understand a normal X session then perhaps they could just act as X-servers or something similar? Do a google for "sunray linux" and see what Linux-type people have done, although from https://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2003-April/msg00797.html it doesn't look too hopeful that anyone has it working yet... Andrew
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