As far as I know, Solaris 7 was the last OS to support the sun4c architecture
(ss2, IPX, IPC, ELC, etc). Solaris 8 will run on sun4m machines (5, 10,
20...most (all?) machines with mbus processors + the sparc5 and a couple others)
just fine, but you'd better have a) a lot of ram, or b) no graphics or it will
be pretty slow on all but the newest sun4m's.
If someone is interested in getting a media copy of Solaris 7 for an old sun4c
machine (and is feeling pretty brave, as you'd better have a lot of ram...at
LEAST 32MB for it to run even halfway reasonably without graphics, more if you
want to run the X server without the machine thrashing to death), let me
know... I've actually run an ss2 with 64M ram as a NAT firewall with solaris
7 and it actually worked pretty damn well :)
George Lewis said:
> > If you can get Solaris8 to run on a Sparc2 let me know 8-).
> > Unfortunately their non-commercial license for Solaris 7 doesn't
> > cover use in anything other than Non Commerical stuff and their
> > license for Solaris 8 (which I own) won't run on any Sparc's I have.
>
> I have not tried solaris 8 on a non-ultra machine, but may have to
> just to try it out. I do know that 2.6 works on my ss2s.
>
> A friend of mine does have solaris 8 running on a 10, but that's
> probably not terribly relevant.
>
> George
>
> >
> >
> > Bill
>
> --
> http://schvin.net/
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 13:52:00 BST