On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Mary Ding wrote:
Andy:
If you want to install on Ultra5/Ultra10, you can consider the following
options:
The text installer can be used to install them. This is the pointer to the
osol_134 text image. I had tried installing them on ultra5 and ultra10 and
it works. Once you install them, you can use pkg image update to update them
to later build.
Text install images based on OpenSolaris build 134 are now available:
SPARC:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/134/textinstall-134-sparc.iso
Size: 451 MB
x86:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/134/textinstall-134-x86.iso
Size: 442 MB
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/134/textinstall-134-x86.usb
Size: 476 MB
MD5 sums are located at:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/text_install/134/md5sums.txt
Please read the release notes page at:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Text+Install+b134+Notes
for known limitations, a FAQ, and a link to open bugs.
Bugs can be filed on bugzilla at http://defect.opensolaris.org
Classification: Development
Product: installer
Component: textui
For more information on the text installer, see:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/TextInstallerProject
Please refer any questions to: [email protected]
Thank you very much for the information - I'll try the text installer as
well as the SXCE build 130 which, as someone else on this mailing list has
pointed out, is closer to Solaris 10 than Opensolaris. And I was also
wrong about the memory - I'd long thought U5's were limited to 512 MB so
I'll see if I can upgrade one of the Ultra 5's to 1 GB as the existing
build 76 is rather slow when running gnome, although quite usable with
CDE/fvwm2.
Andy
On 04/16/10 07:40, andy thomas wrote:
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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