SPARC Live CD?

[Chris Linstid]

Can't you just install GNU versions of the utilities?

http://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.net/indexsparc7.html

They have pretty much everything there that you could possibly need  
as far as CLI utils go.  I'd hit up fileutils-4.1 and tar-1.16 for  
starters.

I believe they all install in /usr/local (or you can tell pkgadd  
where to install the packages) then you just need to bump /usr/local/ 
bin to the front of your path and you'll be using the GNU tools.

Hope that helps. :)

	- Chris

On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:25 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
>> Neil Joseph Schelly writes:
>>> I'm trying to get an UltraSPARC server running Linux, but first I  
>>> need to
>>> get around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around  
>>> on it.
>>> Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line  
>>> utilities, it'd
>>> sure be easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
>>
>> I'm curious:  for the task of ensuring that no useful data remains on
>> the system, what utilities is Solaris 7 lacking?
>>
>
> It's not that it's lacking utilities, but it's frustrating to  
> browse around
> the filesystem, trying to tarball up files, parse for interesting  
> information
> here and there, etc without the GNU versions of common utilities.   
> It's not
> that it can't be done, but Solaris 7 just 'feels' antiquated these  
> days and
> I'd much prefer to just be able to boot it up in a modern  
> environment to do
> the browsing.  That's the place where I know command line options  
> and in many
> cases, options I take for granted aren't even in the Solaris 7  
> binaries for
> things like ps, ls, tar, etc...
> -N
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