Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Hi,
My Solaris 11 install is getting a little long in the tooth and I still
use this poor old machine kind of a lot for small development, pdp11
emulation and its real serial ports, etc. I would like to keep it because
it's pretty low power, reliable as dirt, and still supports the very
comfortable Sun type 4 unix keyboard, which I still feel a little paralyzed
trying to do without. I'm running into problems with new software (CSW, in
particular) wanting more recent libs than the OS has. So I guess (*sigh*)
it's time to update the OS bits.
Is it feasible to install Hipster or OI on such a meagerly appointed
machine? I don't even have a dvd player; just cd.
SunOS beep 5.11 snv_65 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Memory size: 256 Megabytes
An Ultra 5 is a SPARC system.
No one builds OpenIndiana for SPARC.
The two Illumos distributions for SPARC that I know of are OpenSXCE and
Tribblix.
Another option would be to use Solaris 11 Express if it still exists
anywhere - it's old, but not as old as snv_65. I think it still had
sun4u support, but I could be mistaken. Solaris 11 itself no longer
supports sun4u systems except the Sun/Fujitsu M-series
(M3000/4000/5000/8000/9000).
Do you have to stick with SPARC? Your Ultra 5 is going to be way slower
than any current (and many old) x86 systems, which are supported by all
the Illumos distributions.
--
Andrew
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