> Hartmut Krafft schrieb: > > Hi all, > > > > recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5 > workstation, and I decided to give it a try. Right > now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as > there are some annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some > proprietary software not ported to the platform), I > tought about installing a newer version of Solaris. > > The Solaris 9 that came with the computer is way > out of date and I would have to download a lot of > patches (and I'm not even sure if all of them are > accessible w/o a service contract). Being condemned > to a slow Internet connection (64 kb/s), I refrained > from this for the time being and decided to apply for > a free Opensolaris CD instead. This was a fortnight > ago, and since then, I didn't hear anything from > Sun. > So, is anyone here who recently ordered such a CD > and knows how long it might take, or if I should > give it another try? > > Sincerely, > Hartmut > Hi Hartmut, > > are you aware of the fact that OpenSolaris is > currently x86 only? SPARC > support seems to be planned for later this year, but > is not there yet.
There are development builds of OpenSolaris for SPARC available, which presumably means no Sun support is available for it. You need wanboot support (either via openboot or a Solaris install CD) to install OpenSolaris on SPARC at the moment. Your best bet is a recent build of Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ . Note that recent builds require a DVD drive, but again you can install it over the network using a second computer and an older Solaris installation CD. Cheers Andrew. > > Concerning CD shipments, it might be possible that > your order was lost > (wouldn't be the first time - I had such an > experience before). One time > when I received a free CD that I ordered from Sun I'm > pretty sure it > took more than two weeks (in Germany). Shipping to > Russia might be > different. > > - Thomas > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
