Solaris *should* run fine on this system. You will probably not get
some of the more advanced CPU power management features, though. (AMD
multicore CPUs earlier than Barcelona can't do CPU power management on
Solaris.
You might have to use your disks in non-RAID/JBOD mode though - make
sure you can configure the onboard HBA for non-RAID mode.
-- Garrett
Michael Schuster wrote:
> as usual (sigh ...): please keep me on CC, I'm not subscribed.
>
> Michael Schuster wrote:
>
>> I'm considering a "fork-lift" upgrade of our aging PC (ca 5years old),
>> and have come across a tempting offer on ebay. Although the main OS
>> running on this machine will not be Solaris (until something like
>> Photoshop Lightroom comes along for Solaris (pointers, anyone? ;-),
>> anyway), I would at least like to know about the odds of being able to
>> run (Open)Solaris on this box (virtualisation scenarios abound ...)
>>
>> To save people the effort of following a link, here's some specs - I'd
>> appreciate pros/cons and especially hands-on experience with the various
>> pieces of HW:
>>
>> CPU AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core 9950 AM2+ 2.6GHz 4MB 125W
>> Motherboard MSI K9N2GM-FD (AM2+,GeForce 8200,Hybrid SLi,4DDR2,Raid)
>> Video Card NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400GT Super 512MB (Palit)
>> Network Card Onboard Gigabit Ethernet LAN
>>
>> TIA
>> Michael
>>
>
>
>
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