[rescue] SunOS 5.5.1 inaccessible

[David Holland]

Yeah, 2.5.1 == Solaris 5.5.1
2.8 == Solaris 8
2.9 == Solaris 9.. 

Been doing the lot of them too long, and have a bad tendency to use them
interchangeably.

David

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:11, Colin Prince wrote:
> Just to confirm:
> 
> SunOS 5.5.1 == Solaris 2.5.1 ?
> Solaris 2.8 == Solaris 8 ?
> Solaris 2.9 == Solaris 9 ?
> 
> Solaris 8 and 9 are available under license (maybe free) from sun.com, both 
> are able to run on a SPARCStation-10, so that may be one route to go.
> 
> BTW Thank you (everybody) for your helpful responses.
> 
> Colin.
> 
> 
> At 04:47 PM 2/11/2003 -0500, David Holland wrote:
> 
> >Is 2.5.1 a requirement, or will 2.8/2.9 do?
> >
> >Licensing issues aside, Images for 2.8/2.9 should be download-able for
> >cheap/free from www.sun.com.  However that being said, I suspect you
> >will not be able to use the downloaded images for the purposes you need
> >to due to license restrictions. (IANAL however)
> >
> >I'm not certain where you could get 2.5.1 from legally.  I think Sun
> >has stopped selling it.
> >
> >David
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