[osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-13 Thread mindfuq
I took everyones advice from like a year ago, and added a gig of ram to my U10 333, so I could run Solaris 10, ultimately so I could play with ZFS. Performance is acceptable, but I'd like to jump to an x86 and Nextenta (for better h/w performance, and because x86's are more versatile, and

[osol-discuss] Trouble booting into multiuser mode

2007-07-01 Thread mindfuq
I booted a Solaris 10 DVD using boot cdrom at the OBP prompt. The command failed. So then I tried boot cdrom -s to boot the CDROM in single user mode. That worked. I was able to install Solaris 10 w/out issue. When the machine tried to boot off the hard drive, it failed. This is the error

[osol-discuss] Running Solaris and ZFS on Sparc with 128MB of memory

2007-01-15 Thread mindfuq
I have a Sun Ultra 10 with only 128 MB of memory. I intend to run some kind of solaris kernel on it (closed or open) and ZFS - at home, as an experiement. Suggestions? ZFS is only supported by Solaris 10 and Open Solaris. Solaris 10 with ZFS requires 512MB RAM, so that won't work. Most of the