[rescue] Sun Solaris questions...

[Doug McIntyre]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:00:58PM -0600, Bob Darlington wrote:
> I see it here:
> https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/data/s11exp/systems/_gsdata_/_saved_/views/all_desktops_oracle_systems.mfg.page1.html


Solaris 11 Express was "developer preview beta test" for Solaris
11.0. Support for UltraSPARC was dropped by the time 11.0 release came out.


> So maybe an Ultra 2 doesn't work with 11.4?   Then I'll keep my Solaris
> 10.  IF this is the case, then I'll be happy with the memory heading my
> way.

Nope. Keep on Solaris 10 for your UltraSPARC.






> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:17 PM Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 08:31:48PM -0600, Bob Darlington wrote:
> > > I recently resurrected my old Sun Ultra 2 dual 300MHz box.  This involved
> > > cutting down into the NVRAM chip and attaching an external battery,
> > finding
> > > a 13W3  to VGA adapter, etc.
> > >
> > > It's running Solaris 10 on a 9GB internal disk with 256 MB RAM.
> > >
> > > I see that 11.4 is supported on the Ultra 2, but the minimum recommended
> > > system memory is 4GB -twice the max for this system, and a whole lot more
> > > than what I have.
> >
> > It is? Where do you read that?
> >
> > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60973/glmru.html
> >
> > "Oracle Solaris 11.4 supports systems based on the Oracle SPARC T4 or
> > later processors; the Fujitsu SPARC64 X, X+, or XII processors; or x64 CPUs
> > supporting either the Intel EM64T or AMD AMD64 instruction sets."
> > ...
> >
> >
> > You need a *lot* newer SPARC system to run 11.4.
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