Thank you for the responses. Can I use a PCI video card (like the Matrox G200) and get graphical support?
Paul Alfille On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Mary Ding <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul: > > Alan is correct and you can use the Sparc Text Installer 134 CD available > from here: > > http://genunix.org/ > > It works on an ultra 10 and I had tested it. There is no graphic support > though. > > > > On 11/ 7/10 10:45 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> >> Paul Alfille wrote: >>> >>> I have an Ultrasparc 10 with a newly replaced hard disk. >>> Probably the Sparc architecture is deprecated in OpenSolaris >>> development, and I can understand that. Still there are bootable >>> solaris and linux distros for the sparc platform. >> >> The SPARC architecture is not, but the Ultra 10 is - it's over 10 years >> old >> now. There were bootable SPARC text installation CD's made for the last >> OpenSolaris development builds before we stopped releasing the distro. >> They should still be available on genunix.org, but for hardware as ancient >> as the Ultra 10, you're better off with Solaris 10, especially if you want >> to >> use it as a workstation, since OpenSolaris had no support for any of the >> Ultra 10's graphics options. >> > > _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
