Summary - LX50

Inundated! 

Why? Why would I want to do such a crazy pointless thing as run M$ Windrows
on an LX50! Why would I want to do anything soooooo pointless. I don't know,
just wondering. Because its there I guess.

Lots of good responses, here's 7. Number 6 is from first hand experience. 

Please stop now, Thanks, Richard.

1 ===============================
It turns out to be a maxdata platinum 1500RS (www.maxdata.com)
They say it supports linux(RedHat7.x), UNIX and MSWin 2000.

Best regards,

Dirk

2 ================================
It is GP hardware and will run most anything. I know various Linux 
distributions are known to work on this as far as Winblows, not sure. 
 Now why the hell would you want to do this?

-jed

3 =================================
>From the FAQ (http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/lx50/faq.html)
11. Can I run RedHat, SuSE, or other Linux distributions on the Sun LX50
server?

Yes, the Sun LX50 server is based on industry-standard hardware and will run
other Linux distributions. 

Based on that, I'd guess Windows would work as well.

4 ================================

It's just an Intel server, no reason why it should not do both of
the below.  You can download the LX50 specs in PDF format, it's
using ServerWorks chipset.


- Mike

5 ====================================

 Should be no problem once you have written the drivers. But what's the
point?

-- 
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
                -- George Ade
6 ====================================
>From the official
FAQ(http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/lx50/faq.html#11):

"11. Can I run RedHat, SuSE, or other Linux distributions on the Sun
LX50 server?

Yes, the Sun LX50 server is based on industry-standard hardware and will
run other Linux distributions. "

Since it's "based on industry-standard hardware" it will likely run a
few OS:s from a major software company which name I prefer not to
mention. ;)

Having tried the machine myself in our lab I must say it a quite nice
machine. Especially the ability to run everything through a console,
even the BIOS is echoed to the console. The machine has two console
ports, one in the back and one in the front. Normally when installed in
a rack you connect the back port to a console server and if you plug in
a console in the front, it overrides the back one. Quite nice for the
Field Engineer.


Regards

 Krister

7 ======================================
AFAIK, it is a standard RedHat Server Distro that sun is rolling with
this box, and I would be amazed if the machine can't be re-purposed with
other X86 OS'es.  I'm wondering myself if you can purchase a "stripped
down" LX50 and then upgrade it yourself with inexpensive generic parts ...

Tim




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Hi,

Does anyone know if the LX50 will run Linux distributions which are not from
Sun?
Will it run other operating systems like, dare I say it, MS Windows 2000 or
XP?

Cheers,

Richard

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