[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

[Jerry Kemp]

You have taken it a lot further than I would have.

For an Ultra 5 or 10, I probably would not have gone past Solaris 10, and due to 
your ram being well under 4 Gb, I would stay on UFS vs ZFS.

When you say "Solaris 11 install" in reference to this box, do you mean an 
install of Sun OpenSolaris?  Or Oracle Solaris 11 Express?   By default, and 
beginning with Solaris 11 proper, Oracle Solaris 11 will not install on a Sparc 
system unless it is a T series or M series at the low end.

I understand you stating it is a good box, I have an Ultra 10 myself that is 
still chugging along, either way, I would take this time to max out the ram on 
your system.  I believe that the Ultra 5/10 system board will hold 1 Gb of RAM. 
  It seem that you have quite a few more years planned into your Ultra 5, and it 
is available new for reasonable prices, or there are a number of old hardware 
support list where I suspect that you could acquire more RAM for the cost of 
shipping.

Jerry


On 02/ 1/15 12:09 PM, 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
>
> thx
> jake
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