On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
andy thomas wrote:
512 MB is the maximum memory supported
on Ultra 5/10 systems so how is one supposed to install 2009.06 or even
2010.03?
Generally, you're not. Ultra 5 & 10 systems are past their end of life,
and not officially supported after Solaris 10. You may be able to get it
to work with things such as the text installer, but would end up with
a system missing drivers for things such as your graphics cards. Whether
there's enough there to be usable depends on what you plan to use the
machine for.
OK, I'll stay with Solaris 10. I use them for all sorts of non-graphical
things - firewalls, routers, VPN concentrators, mail servers, software
development, dev web sites, etc. I have 10 of them so it seems a shame not
to use them.
I was hoping to use one (running Opensolaris) with the gnome sound
recorder to convert my vinyl record collection to MP3 - an Ultra 5 with
LCD screen is fairly quiet & would sit nicely with my hi-fi setup,
streaming the files to a remote fileserver upstairs. I did try this about
18 months ago with Osol snv_76 but ran into problems with the sound
recorder stopping after a few minutes for no apparent reason, and I
thought maybe this might be fixed in 2009.06 or later. I think I'll
persevere and try & fix this in snv_76.
Otherwise I could use my E250 but that isn't so quiet...
Andy
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