[geeks] Help needed with Sun V65x

[Lionel Peterson]

Argh.

I've been forced to the realization that the Xeon CPUs are nothing like I
imagined they were.

Solaris 11 failed complaining that the CPU "doesn't support long words".
Fine, my further investigation showed that the "V" series of servers were
unsupported as of Solaris 11.

Solaris 10 is only available from Oracle as a DVD ISO, but the V65x only
has a CD drive. Try two different USB DVD drives, no go. Try swapping the
slimline CD for a DVD drive, no go. The BIOS just skipped right over the
drive, never tried to bot off the DVD.

So then I grab an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 Server CD and I give it a whirl. It
starts out promising, asking me to pick a language, then says the kernel
only support x64 CPUs and this machine has an i686 processor.

Apparently modern OSes don't consider the 3.06 Xeon a true 64 bit CPU.


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, I was thinking about that - I did it years ago with a SPARC setup,
> really easy as I recall, at least it was for SPPARC clients - not sure
> about PXE booting off a jumpstart server...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lionel
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
>
>> On 02/17/2014 09:49 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I was hoping to install Solaris on this V65x I cane across, but the only
>>> ISOs I can find are either DVDs (Solaris 10) or CD-ROMs for a version of
>>> Solaris my hardware doesn't support (Solaris 11.1)...
>>>
>>> Is there such a thing as Solaris 10 install CD-ROM? Is an ISO available?
>>>
>>>
>> Early editions of Sol 10 came in 3? 4? disc sets.  I doubt you want one
>> of these, since updates will be hard to come by.
>>
>> I imagine the easiest route is jumpstart.  If you have an existing
>> Solaris system of any kind, setting up an install server takes about five
>> minutes.
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