Appears a straight up bit copy of the CD works fine. From what I recall, ISO is both a file system specification, and a extension name for a disk image. The .iso file can just capture the bits on the disk, regardless of filesystem. ISO as a file system has some strict limits. Since I am remembering this stuff, I might as well say this too. If you want CDs that are readable by UNIX, MAC, WINDOWS, IRIX, etc... Use "ISO 9660" with "Rock Ridge" extensions. Those read on anything these days, and preserve long filenames and such. For windows, of course, there is a separate, but different kind of thing called "Joilet". (who is the bright bulb on that one?) Nero is your friend, still supporting a good ISO + Rock Ridge CD today.
Since this is technically a SUN thread, I often ran Solaris machines for the same CAD. Their compute was faster, generally speaking. More spartan environment, but quick for the bucks, as I recall. That seemed to be the SUN value add. Not as much scaling, but they did offer nice, robust machines that were pretty quick for commercial UNIX machines. The SUN boxes stayed relevant, compute wise a bit longer than the SGI ones did, and I think that's mostly due to MIPS crapping out around the R12K time, maybe R14K, with Sparc still seeing improvements that withered on the vine at MIPS.
My favorite SUN logo: "We are the dot in .com", and "the network is the computer". My favorite attribute about SUN was attitude. At one point, running a windows box on the SUN network was a termination offense! They worked hard to eat their own dog food. That is highly likely why they remained relevant as long as they did.
+1 on the Fuel. Great machine. Fast. Did you know that Visual Workstation used the Cobalt chipset from the O2? Shared memory graphics. One could get a GB or more of texture / graphics memory, running at full clip with the CPU. Sold a number of those to gamers, wanting to run UT at full 1600x1080... expensive game rig, but very good graphically. Sadly, that machine was to get Linux drivers for Cobalt, and would have been the first high-end Linux machine, capable of production graphics. Microsoft legal got in the way, patent on the ARC loader used in the BIOS, forcing SGI to scuttle the great graphics stuff, after showing it at Siggraph 99...
FTPDMIN for Windows at http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/ftpdmin/ is nice.
(Start it from a command shell with the folder you want to be the FTP-root as a parameter, and you're all set. Then just Ctrl+C when finished. No install or anything. Even ran on my very-locked-down W7 PC at the office... )
No clue as to which OS ver is on my Indigo.
And not much more idea what's the best OS version for my two SUN boxes.
Not a 'SUN' machine, but... I just won an eBay auction on a TadPole SparcBook 1...
I got it for $0.06 ... And $99 in shipping...
(It doesn't boot. All HW tests are OK, but it complains about not finding vmunix. Comes with all CDs, though)
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Appears a straight up bit copy of the CD works fine. From what I recall, ISO is both a file system specification, and a extension name for a disk image. The .iso file can just capture the bits on the disk, regardless of filesystem. ISO as a file system has some strict limits. Since I am remembering this stuff, I might as well say this too. If you want CDs that are readable by UNIX, MAC, WINDOWS, IRIX, etc... Use "ISO 9660" with "Rock Ridge" extensions. Those read on anything these days, and preserve long filenames and such. For windows, of course, there is a separate, but different kind of thing called "Joilet". (who is the bright bulb on that one?) Nero is your friend, still supporting a good ISO + Rock Ridge CD today.
Since this is technically a SUN thread, I often ran Solaris machines for the same CAD. Their compute was faster, generally speaking. More spartan environment, but quick for the bucks, as I recall. That seemed to be the SUN value add. Not as much scaling, but they did offer nice, robust machines that were pretty quick for commercial UNIX machines. The SUN boxes stayed relevant, compute wise a bit longer than the SGI ones did, and I think that's mostly due to MIPS crapping out around the R12K time, maybe R14K, with Sparc still seeing improvements that withered on the vine at MIPS.
My favorite SUN logo: "We are the dot in .com", and "the network is the computer". My favorite attribute about SUN was attitude. At one point, running a windows box on the SUN network was a termination offense! They worked hard to eat their own dog food. That is highly likely why they remained relevant as long as they did.
+1 on the Fuel. Great machine. Fast. Did you know that Visual Workstation used the Cobalt chipset from the O2? Shared memory graphics. One could get a GB or more of texture / graphics memory, running at full clip with the CPU. Sold a number of those to gamers, wanting to run UT at full 1600x1080... expensive game rig, but very good graphically. Sadly, that machine was to get Linux drivers for Cobalt, and would have been the first high-end Linux machine, capable of production graphics. Microsoft legal got in the way, patent on the ARC loader used in the BIOS, forcing SGI to scuttle the great graphics stuff, after showing it at Siggraph 99...
FTPDMIN for Windows at http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/ftpdmin/ is nice.
(Start it from a command shell with the folder you want to be the FTP-root as a parameter, and you're all set. Then just Ctrl+C when finished. No install or anything. Even ran on my very-locked-down W7 PC at the office... )
No clue as to which OS ver is on my Indigo.
And not much more idea what's the best OS version for my two SUN boxes.
Not a 'SUN' machine, but... I just won an eBay auction on a TadPole SparcBook 1...
I got it for $0.06 ... And $99 in shipping...
(It doesn't boot. All HW tests are OK, but it complains about not finding vmunix. Comes with all CDs, though)