Scott Stevens drunkenly mumbled...
> >It might be a video problem or maybe a ram problem?  Not sure yet.
> >OpenBSD also caused it to panic and crash.  Interesting, it is now
> >loading a Solaris 8, seemingly OK.  That would suggest that it is not
> 
> I would recommend pulling out part of the RAM and trying with just 32 or 64 
> Megs of RAM in the box to try to eliminate problems with one particular 
> stick of memory.  You can move in various of the memory sticks to try to 
> isolate a bad one.  I have a SS10 running NetBSD without any problems, 
> though mine has only 64 MB of RAM and 16 of Video RAM (mine is a dual head 
> SS10SX).  There are docs on Sun's website telling which memory slots to 
> populate first (actually it's the whole service manual for SS10).

or, since he's already installing 8, install the SunVTS package and test the
memory with that.  it's pretty good and helped me track down a bad module in
my sparc5.

i forget which CD VTS is on, i think 2 of 2.

cheers,

-brian