Hello George,
If I were you, I'd really try to move to the latest solaris-10, assuming
of course that your application can run on it. If you can't read DVDs,
then why not borrow/purchase a DVD drive that fits your machines, and
take it from there? I don't understand what's so hard about this.
--
Andrew Gaylard
On 12/09/14 20:06, Wyche, George PW wrote:
I appreciate your attempts to review our options.
Remember, I originally replied only to point out that pockets of Sun workstations do
exist without external connections, thus do not pose an internet security risk by
using Solaris <anything>.
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No Oracle contract, so no patch clusters. Don't know what PCA is. Live Upgrade? I looked
into that, but can't remember right now why that can't work. Seems like the base Solaris
10 is too old for Live Upgrade or there is nowhere to hold the thing which to upgrade to.
ISO files? Like from the DVD for Solaris final (the only thing offered last I looked (2
years ago?))? We have no Workstation with a sufficiently working DVD reader. I tried to
get the supposed manufacturer driver "fix", but failed (I cannot remember why,
but I was sure motivated to get it at the time). I tried to find a DVD reader to be used
totally in place of any Sun/Oracle supported one. Failed.
If there is a way to host the DVD on a Microsoft PC and get it across a
network... Oh yeah... samba is among the openCSW that won't work the earlier
versions of Solaris 10.
At some point it's not worth the hit on the company overhead to keep bucking
the Oracle (or whoever) indifference to these kind of wants from workstation
outfits like us. I wanted samba, emacs, daylight savings time proper
transition, gimp, python, and an html browser (for our own documentation). All
of those have disappeared from openCSW unless we have a later version of
Solaris10. To heck with 'em. ALL of those exist, no problem, on Solaris 8. We
really tried to become upstanding Solaris 10 users, but we (me) didn't clearly
understand just what was coming down the line and that we better take action
before the window closed. Now we are paying for that lack of foresight.
We are working our way out of this by ultimately abandoning Oracle. I say this despite my
boss buying 2 additional used SunBlade2500s because one of ours' power supply died this
last weekend, and one is to be the roving "instant" hardware replacement should
this happen again. At that level we can make purchases for whatever. Believe me, when
they arrive, I will be looking at the level of the OS that happens to be on the internal
disks.... ya' never know.
-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Laurent Blume
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 3:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [External] IT's time to remove the Solaris 8 packages
Le 2014/12/05 18:23 +0100, George Pw Wyche a écrit:
No. By owning company decree.
It's still perfectly possible to upgrade to an OpenCSW supported point, using
eg PCA, or patch clusters, or Live Upgrade and ISO files, whatever.
Laurent
