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From: Bill Waddington on 20 Jun 2005 19:30 On 20 Jun 2005 16:15:30 -0700, kristian.hermansen(a)gmail.com wrote: >Well, licenses have already been purchased for the SunBlade 150s that >these will be running on. I just have more updated releases, which is >normally a good thing. In this case, it is not. I already have >Solaris 8 (SPARC - 6/01) and Solaris 9 (SPARC - 12/02). I really need >the original releases of Solaris 8 (SPARC - 2/00) and Solaris 9 (SPARC >- 5/02). I will check some local tech book and software shops, but >things don't look good when the original issuer of the software makes >it unavailable :-( > >On the Microsoft side of things, not that I like them very much, at >least they offer the MSDN subscription which allows downloading of >ANYTHING ever made by M$. I mean, I can even get Window 3.1 if I want >or any patch level of current Operating Systems. I don't think that >Sun offers the same thing. At least it would have been nice to dump >the ISOs on their public FTP before running the old releases into the >ground... I should have read your 1st post a little more carefully. I'll use those DVDs under my beer glass this evening :) Digging further, I find a Solaris 8 SPARC box containing a full set of CDs labelled "February 2000, Revision A". Is "A" early enough or do you need Rev Null? I may have some other SPARC CDs stuffed between the Quark and Positron at the office. I'll take a look tomorrow. Bill -- William D Waddington william.waddington(a)beezmo.com "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
From: kristian.hermansen on 20 Jun 2005 19:49 Bill, that would be awesome! Yes, rev A is fine! If you happen to locate the Solaris 9 5/02 release as well -- I won't know what to say :-) Let me know how much you want for the Solaris 8 release and, if you locate Solaris 9, that one too. They would be shipping out to Massachusetts...thanks so much! Kristian Hermansen
From: Bill Waddington on 20 Jun 2005 20:38 On 20 Jun 2005 16:49:01 -0700, kristian.hermansen(a)gmail.com wrote: >Bill, that would be awesome! Yes, rev A is fine! If you happen to >locate the Solaris 9 5/02 release as well -- I won't know what to say >:-) Let me know how much you want for the Solaris 8 release and, if >you locate Solaris 9, that one too. They would be shipping out to >Massachusetts...thanks so much! I found the S8 at home. Don't know what's at the office but I will check on Tuesday. Send me a private email and we can discuss the details. Bill -- William D Waddington william.waddington(a)beezmo.com "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
From: Alan Coopersmith on 20 Jun 2005 21:37 kristian.hermansen(a)gmail.com writes in comp.unix.solaris: |Well, licenses have already been purchased for the SunBlade 150s that |these will be running on. I just have more updated releases, which is |normally a good thing. In this case, it is not. I already have |Solaris 8 (SPARC - 6/01) and Solaris 9 (SPARC - 12/02). I really need |the original releases of Solaris 8 (SPARC - 2/00) and Solaris 9 (SPARC |- 5/02). One slight problem - you can't actually run Solaris 8 2/00 on that hardware. Solaris 8 2/02 is officially the oldest supported release for the SunBlade 150. (You might be able to run older, but definitely not as far back as 2/00 - you couldn't even run the older Sun Blade 100's on anything before Solaris 8 10/00 - the drivers simply weren't there yet.) -- ________________________________________________________________________ Alan Coopersmith * alanc(a)alum.calberkeley.org * Alan.Coopersmith(a)Sun.COM http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~alanc/ * http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/ Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
From: kristian.hermansen on 21 Jun 2005 11:25
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > One slight problem - you can't actually run Solaris 8 2/00 on that > hardware. Solaris 8 2/02 is officially the oldest supported release > for the SunBlade 150. (You might be able to run older, but definitely > not as far back as 2/00 - you couldn't even run the older Sun Blade > 100's on anything before Solaris 8 10/00 - the drivers simply weren't > there yet.) I ran the 6/01 release with no issues at all. However, we also have older hardware to test older releases on. Do you have a link to where it states that drivers are not available in particular releases? When was the SunBlade 150 put on the market? The drivers must be in the 6/01 release, because it runs just fine... Kristian Hermansen |