[OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-11-23 05:23, jason matthews wrote:
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> i seem to recall that there are solaris 8 branded zones. if memory serves from one of the opensolaris conferences you can just untar your current setup in zone and boot it.
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>   pick up a niagra or something from ebay -- less power more juice low cost.

Thanks for the suggestions, and they are looking at it. For a few years
now. The problem is with Informix databases - its chunks are stored in
raw devices (over SVM) which would probably translate to zvols, but they
couldn't figure out what to change where for a verbatim copy. Or how to
reinstall the thing with proper import of data which is still regularly
being backed up :\

I guess it is time to learn some of that...

> On Nov 22, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> FWIW If it is the NVRAM, it's probably not a big problem if you can get the replacement part.  I went through this mid 90's w/o any problems. Don't actually recall what the system was as I had several then, but the 4/110 seems a likely candidate.  I'm pretty sure I was at the "won't boot" stage when I discovered the problem.
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>> On the other hand, I think the cost of electricity is a pretty compelling argument for system replacement.

It is a university. Power is free or fixed-price. Little incentive to
upgrade :\

Thanks for all the suggestions so far :)

If we do manage to replace the NVRAM chip, I guess the eeprom settings
(boot-devices and so on) would also need to be recovered?

Thanks again,
//Jim