[rescue] Solaris 86 on non-HCL hardware

[Steve Sandau]

> > What's the chance of installing Solaris86 7 on this thing?  The box
> > isn't on the HCL, but the SCSI card, and Adaptec 1740, is, and I
> > expect I could find a compatible NIC around here.  I have no idea
> > what the video is, since it's on the motherboard, but it can't be
> > too weird, being a 1993 box. It's got a SCSI CD-rom drive, a
> > Toshiba 5701B, and six SCSI drives in it (2x1gig,
> > 2x4gig, 2x4.5gig).  72 megs of RAM.
> 
> OK
> 
> > So ... do you think it will work?  Any major gotchas I need to be
> > aware of?
> 
> Should work - I think the real concern with Solaris x86 is the I/O
> devices, and as you say, the SCSI is supported, a NIC will be found,
> and the video is most likely straight-forward VGA/SVGA - Solaris x86 is
> picky about these items...
> 
> P60 - aren't they *slower* than, say, a 486/100?
> 
Not in my (limited) experience. The bus improved in the Pentium. I had
some of those Evergreen Pentium-on-a-486-sized chip things, and found
that the Pentium 75 upgrade on a 486 brought it up to about a P60...

-- 
Steve Sandau
IS Technician, TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com