Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> --- David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Andy
> >
> > Well, browsing around Sun's website, I found that you can download
> > Solaris 8 and 9...
> > http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
> > http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/8/index.html
> >
> > Prices:
> > Download Solaris 9/Sparc - free
> > Download Solaris 9/x86 - US$20
> > Download Solaris 8/Both - US$20
> >
> > Solaris 9 is through the Free Binary License program, and Sol 8
> > used to be free; I'm not sure if it still is in the Free Binary program.
>
> I think "used to" is the operative phrase. Sun tends to want you to
> upgrade, including adding a little $20 persuasion in this case. Also,
> they didn't really want to make Solaris 9 for x86, but scuttlebutt is
> that a large customer leaned on them for it.
Seems that way. Good thing I keep all the CDs I burn. :)
I wonder if I still have the ISO files I downloaded for 8 & 9
> Somewhere on the site, you can even download a PDF with the correct
> labels. You have to use the ones that are aligned vertically along
> the center axis of the paper (as opposed to the ones with the labels
> in opposite corners), but I dropped a sheet with those puppies in an
> HP LaserJet 4550 and it cranked out some fine, professional-looking
> lables for me (which seriously beat a scrawl from a Sharpie).
>
Eh, I just used those PDF labels to make the CD case insert. Sharpie on
the disc is good enough for me...
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--- Dave Woyciesjes
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Received on Tue May 13 2003 - 11:11:01 BST