[rescue] Sun Solaris questions...

[Bob Darlington]

Make that 2005 install, not 1995 install.

-Bob

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:23 PM Bob Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Roger that.  I'm pulling a newer version of 10 (1/13) which for sure is
> newer than this 1995 install being patched with whatever I could find in
> mid 2010.    Thanks guys.  I'm determined to have fun with this old beast.
> So far it's been a lot of fun and is bringing back fond memories.
>
> -Bob
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:15 PM Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
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>> > 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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