Just scrounged a HP9000 unix box - Going to use it for an ftp server/router/firewall. But the jokers at work deleted part of the OS when clearing it down, I have managed to reset root but get loads of errors trying to use it - Does anyone know if Linux will run on it or do I have to go search for a copy of HP-ux on the web? Its PA-Risc processor based.
I believe you're stuck running HP-sUX on it. Can the folks that hooked you up with the box get you some install media, perhaps an older version or something?
I thought ou could get linux for risc processors.....or is there just somethign special about this one that stops you ?
Nope, no support by the look of it. No chance of getting the install disks or manuals either they skipped them a couple of months before they gave me the machine as they thought it was a 486 Tower!!! Aren't IT support staff great sometimes. I've even tried the alt.binaries newsgroups - nothing! Seems a shame to scrap it - anyone know somone that might want to buy it???
Don't give up too quick, maybe you've got some contacts at a University where you could get the media? Put out some feelers, I bet you could get someone to throw the PH-UX 9 or 10 media your way. Of course, it's a long uphill battle to get it usable after that, building all the GNU **** etc. Did you get a display with it? Some of those workstations had righteous graphics hardware. FWIW, I wound up scavenging an IBM RISC box with AIX on it for fans and heatsinks and SCSI peripherals/cables. That OS was more evil that I was prepared to confront. $17,000 new, and I scuttled it for a few fans. Ain't technology grand?
AIX is great.... much better than HP-ux I use it all the time, Still prefer Solaris (better stop now - I'm beginning to sound beardy). Yea - spent a couple of hours scouring the underground sites for a 'backup' of HP-ux9 - will try again this weekend. No luck so far with friends etc.... but a copy of Solaris-x86 did drop through my letterbox (now where's that old P120?).