[geeks] Solaris 2.6 PPC beta anyone ?

Plamen Mihaylov plamenspam at afterpeople.com
Wed Feb 20 17:27:26 CST 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:

> On 02/19/2013 10:58 AM, Walter Belgers wrote:
>
>> On 19 feb. 2013, at 16:55, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
>>
>>> I'm now running Solaris 2.5.1/PPC on Motorola Powerstack.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wow, that is a heck of a neat/rare setup.  How well does it work?  As
>>> many different Solaris/SunOS machine combos that I have worked on
>>> (Soulborne, Axil, Tatung, Fujitsu, etc., and lots of random Solaris 8+
>>> x86), I've never seen Solaris/PPC or Sun386i/Sun486i.  I'd love to see
>>> (or even better own!) both of those.
>>>
>>
>> It is indeed neat. I've never been succesful in getting Solaris to run on
>> my
>> Motorola PowerStack.
>>
>>
> Does the PowerStack require special install media or something ?  (I mean,
> special relative to a PReP thinkpad or what-have-you)

AFAIK it can be installed from QIC tape or CD, in both case you need a
bootable diskette.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:29 PM, <microcode at zoho.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:42:22PM +0200, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
>
> > I'm now running Solaris 2.5.1/PPC on Motorola Powerstack.
> > Does anyone have Solaris 2.6/PPC beta's iso images or any precompiled gcc
> > package for solaris/prep.
> > Thank you in advance
>
> Wow! I can't help but I would like to gawk. Any plans for a pic gallery?
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