[geeks] Help needed with Sun V65x

[Patrick Finnegan]

That's because it's 32-bit only.  Intel's x86_64 support began with the
Nacona in mid 2004:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#.22Nocona.22_.2890_nm.29

In terms of Dell PowerEdge models, that'd be what was used in the 2850, not
the 2650.  Still, pretty power hungry.  I'd rather have a 1st generation
(3-digit model #) Opteron over those Xeon chips.

Pat


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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