And now upgrading that NT box.

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I have this older Sun Sparc Station II currently running
WinNT. I would like to upgrqade it to Win XP can it be
done ?
I know that I cold upgrade to Win2000 but definitely XP
would be better.
The box is mainly the DNS sever hosting the firewall etc
for a home network.
Any comments appreciated.

Thanx

Alain Pascal Routhier

 

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Why bother?


"Alain" <arouthier@millenniumcare.com> wrote in message
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|
| I have this older Sun Sparc Station II currently running
| WinNT. I would like to upgrqade it to Win XP can it be
| done ?
| I know that I cold upgrade to Win2000 but definitely XP
| would be better.
| The box is mainly the DNS sever hosting the firewall etc
| for a home network.
| Any comments appreciated.
|
| Thanx
|
| Alain Pascal Routhier
|

 

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If you have it set up as a NDS server and that is all it does, I would
leave it alone since you have it working just fine. I don't really see
many advantages in your case for upgrading.

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Nathan McNulty


Jim Macklin wrote:
> Why bother?
>
>
> "Alain" <arouthier@millenniumcare.com> wrote in message
> news:06f401c49830$e3b971d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> |
> | I have this older Sun Sparc Station II currently running
> | WinNT. I would like to upgrqade it to Win XP can it be
> | done ?
> | I know that I cold upgrade to Win2000 but definitely XP
> | would be better.
> | The box is mainly the DNS sever hosting the firewall etc
> | for a home network.
> | Any comments appreciated.
> |
> | Thanx
> |
> | Alain Pascal Routhier
> |
>
>

 

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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:04:31 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
<p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote:

>Why bother?
>
>
>"Alain" <arouthier@millenniumcare.com> wrote in message
>news:06f401c49830$e3b971d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>|
>| I have this older Sun Sparc Station II currently running
>| WinNT. I would like to upgrqade it to Win XP can it be
>| done ?
>| I know that I cold upgrade to Win2000 but definitely XP
>| would be better.
>| The box is mainly the DNS sever hosting the firewall etc
>| for a home network.
>| Any comments appreciated.
>|
>| Thanx
>|
>| Alain Pascal Routhier
>|
>
I though Sun Sparc stations had Sparc processors NOT Intel processors.
Anyway I would suggest installing Solaris rather than Windows for
DNS/Firewall functions.

Peter Hutchison