HP-UX

[SolarFlux]

Hey guyz,

just picked up an HP 9000 735/125 workstation on ebay for $81. Gonna get an HP 3-BNC monitor and load HP-UX on it... Anyone have any experience with HP-UX or older HP hardware?

Details on the box:

125 MHz PA RISC Processor
2.1 GB Seagate ST32550N Barracuda
128 MB RAM
Videocard with 3BNC connectors
2 Serial Ports
Parallel Port
Keyboard (HIL)
Mouse
Power Cord
Fast/Wide Connector
SCSI Out
LAN AUI Port

[nopun]

I have had experience with HP-UX, although it was some time ago (4 or 5 years). I would say that I used a lower spec box than that (50Mhz processor seems to ring a bell?) - it was very solid and very fast. You may find HP-UX to be non-standard in some areas (it was my first experience of Unix, I can't remember details, but I did have to do some adapting when using SCO and AIX boxes).
I left the company at around the same time my boss (who did not find Unix too friendly) decided to dump it and get Windows NT (coincidence?). I wish I had put in an offer for that box, as far as my boss was concerned it was next to worthless.

[SolarFlux]

nopun:

thx for the reply, glad to hear SOMEONE around here has heard of HP-UX, let alone used it!

How does AIX compare to HP-UX? I might get an RS/6000 later to play with that as well.

First things first tho.

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[nopun]

Well... this is a newbie site - I consider myself a Linux newbie rather than a Unix newbie (but by no means a Unix expert).
I don't think I would like to compare the two (is that a cop out?). I have only experienced one HP-UX box as opposed to many AIX boxes.
I like AIX. I have come across people who don't, but I think that is mainly due to differences between it and other Unixes that they have used. (again, some non standard stuff). Generally, RS/6000s rock solid, although I have known some to take a funny turn (and if you have to enlist outside help to get it fixed, it will NOT be cheap!).
BTW, throw away your definition of the word "partition" and use "logical volume". In AIX terminology a partition is a section of disk space (typically 512k). Logical volumes do not have to be contiguous as in Linux - you can add further partitions to your logical volumes after the event (that's assuming you've left some unallocated).

[SolarFlux]

Thanks for the input, but I was really looking more for info on HP-UX and not AIX. AIX is somewhat down the road for me...

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[SolarFlux]

Update: I now have HP-UX up and running on my HP box... Only took about an hour to install, pretty easy. Too bad my box doesn't support 11.0, but I guess 10.20 is good enuff to learn on...

I also installed Solaris 2.6 on my Sparc 10, only 'cause my 24-bit framebuffer isn't supported in Solaris 8. But, I know a guy who said he got his working in 8, just have to email him and get the config.

I picked up a 32X external SCSI Plextor CD-ROM drive, which made all this possible.

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[quasimojo]

We use HP-UX and NT (bleh!!!) exclusively where I work. I really like HP-UX alot. It is what got me into linux. I'll bet you could load a linux distro onto that old workhorse of tyours. I work with the new N-4000's running 11.00 so I may not be of much help but give me a try if you have questions!!!