[rescue] Sun Solaris questions...

Thu Apr 4 12:38:06 CDT 2019

That reminds me of the Solaris 9 installer - absolute minimum of 128MB required to run the (Java-based) interactive installer. Installer extremely slow in 128MB, really needed more. However, once installed, system would run happily with multiple users (dual-headed) in 80MB.

Glad we had a full jumpstart-with-automatic-patches set-up for doing such installs in bulk!

-Mike

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 1:20 PM +0100, "Bob Darlington" <rdarlington at gmail.com> wrote:

Lionel, I considered asking for memory here but this is an awful lot and it
didn't feel right.  That said, I now have 256 megs (spread across 8
dimms)up for grabs.  The 2 GB came in, and I need to have a sit down with
the eBay vendor.  5 or 6 chip caps were torn off the boards in transit from
smacking into each other.  I was able to clean the PCB and solder them back
on and I'm up and going, but what about the next guy that doesn't know how
to do this?  Anyway, that's for another day.

Solaris 10 1/13 on a burned DVD is now able to boot so I just reinstalled
and everything looks fine.   It wouldn't boot with the lower amount of
memory, but now all is well.

Thanks guys.   I really appreciate the help and advice on this thing.

-Bob

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 5:50 PM Bob Darlington 
wrote:

> Yep, late last night I found 2 GB kits for this thing and ordered one.
>  $80 shipped which feels expensive, but I can only imagine what this cost
> back in the early to mid 90s.  Its a bargain!  ;-)
>
> I'll keep it at Solaris 10.  Guys, thanks for the help on this one.  I
> went down the wrong path thinking I could  get 11 on here because I didn't
> pay enough attention when reading.  Don't be like me.l
>
> I will say it felt a whole lot faster 15+ years ago when I was patching
> Solaris 8 at work vs 10 here at home.
>
> -Bob
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:22 AM Mike Spooner  wrote:
>
>> Max memory on the Ultra-2 is 2GB, 16x128MB (IIRC, must be installed in
>> groups of 4).
>>
>>
>> As usual MemoryX appear to have 'em in stock.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I suspect the U2 firmware and S10 boot-loader were beyond the 512/2048
>> shenannigans (ie: could cope with either).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Some SCSI DVD drive models could not reliably read DVDs containing more
>> than 3.7GB of data and thus could not install later revs of S10 (the stock
>> ones in the Ultra-10 were notorious for that, fixable with firmware
>> upgrade, although some other makes/models seem to have the problem too).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally, burning S10 media can be a hit-and-miss affair on Sun systems -
>> if you don't have original Sun media but just a (SPARC edition) ISO, I
>> would transfer the ISO to a PC and burn it to DVD *there*.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:06 AM +0100, "Peter Stokes" <
>> peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> Hi Bob
>>
>> A couple of questions...
>> 1) can you read the media on the running system ok?
>> 2) Does the drive have a 512/2048 jumper and for the DVD is set to 2048,
>> 512
>> for CD?
>>
>> Also agree that 11 is not for the U2, stick with 10 last release was the
>> 13
>> one
>>
>> You may want to increase the mem to 512/1gb however for 10, cannot
>> remember
>> the min values for 10.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> > On 31 Mar 2019, at 03:31, Bob Darlington  wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > I recently resurrected my old Sun Ultra 2 dual 300MHz box.  This
>> involved
>> > cutting down into the NVRAM chip and attaching an external battery,
>> finding
>> > a 13W3  to VGA adapter, etc.
>> >
>> > It's running Solaris 10 on a 9GB internal disk with 256 MB RAM.
>> >
>> > I see that 11.4 is supported on the Ultra 2, but the minimum recommended
>> > system memory is 4GB -twice the max for this system, and a whole lot
>> more
>> > than what I have.
>> >
>> > I can't for the life of me boot the install DVD and am getting "Can't
>> open
>> > boot_archive" and "fast data access mmu miss" below that.
>> >
>> > Is there some trick to this?  I've since copied the 10-Recommended
>> patches
>> > off a DVD I made back in 6/2010 with whatever was current there and am
>> > currently patching the system (slow) so I know the DVD drive is at least
>> > good enough for that.   It's an HP drive I use with my NeXT and have
>> some
>> > confidence in it, and is setup at the default scsi ID 6 where the
>> internal
>> > CDROM drive was.
>> >
>> > Is it worth it to even try going to 11.4?  When I see a minimum amount
>> of
>> > memory that high, I keep eyeballing my 2.6 CD.
>> >
>> > Thanks all,
>> > Bob
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