[rescue] Upgrade Solaris8 from MicroSPARC to UltraSPARC

Ken Hansen rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Oct 17 07:51:33 CDT 2001


You plan on pulling the HD out of an SS/5 and slide it into an UltraSPARC?

Uhm, no - you must re-install Solaris on the target machine. These machines
are *too* different...

Assuming you do not have some secret way of swapping an Ultra 440 MHz CPU
into an SS/5...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Thompson" <m_thompson at ids.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:20 AM
Subject: [rescue] Upgrade Solaris8 from MicroSPARC to UltraSPARC


> I need to upgrade the CPU a VME based WWW server next month. It currently
> has a 110 MHz MicroSPARC CPU and will get a 440 MHz UltraSPARC CPU.
>
> Can I upgrade Solaris without doing a complete reinstall?



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