[SunRescue] Solaris 7 server?

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Wed Feb 9 17:30:54 CST 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Davies [mailto:MarkUK at uunix.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 1:02 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Solaris 7 server?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I can get my hands on 'Solaris 7 Server' for next to nothing, now, I
> cannot recall if there is a Server version or if it would be 
> the same as
> the free version. It comes on 7CDs so I'm told. Any ideas? I 
> suppose the
> minimum spec would be quite high, but I'd like to think I could run it
> without graphics on an IPX ? My next problem would be 
> installing it via
> an NT server exporting its CD-ROM (via NFS) to an IPC and booting from
> the network?

Nope, it's not the same as the free version.  It comes with a bunch of other
things, probably some Veritas disk tools.  If the IPX is a Sun4c then you
can load solaris on there, just stay away from X.  The free Solaris7 comes
with 3 CDs; 1 documentation, 1 SPARC, 1 Intel.  
	Greg






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