On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > andy thomas wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, andrew wrote: >> >>>> In the past I have successfully installed earlier >>>> versions of Opensolaris >>>> on Sun Ultra 5's with 512 MB or less installed memory >>>> from a CD but from >>>> 2009.06, only the AI method is supported which >>>> apparently requires at >>>> least 1 GB of memory. 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? >>> >>> Actually the maximum memory on these systems in 1GB. >> >> You're right! Not sure where I got the idea 512 MB was the limit but >> I'll try and upgrade one of the Ultra 5's. > > If I remember correctly, the Ultra 5 limit of 512MB was if you had the > floppy drive or some other piece of hardware installed that blocked > access to the rest of the DIMM slots. I'm sure there's details online > somewhere.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/U5/spec&source= I think that it is the power supply that gets in the way. The system board is the same in the Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 (aside from the Ultra 5 CPU being slower). As such, if you can find an Ultra 10 case without a system board you can move the Ultra 5 system board over to the Ultra 10 then populate the other DIMM slots. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
