[SPARCbook] solaris 2.5

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 sparcbook-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

>   1. solaris 2.5 (Segleau, Rodolfo)
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> From: "Segleau, Rodolfo" <Rodolfo.Segleau at compaq.com>
> To: "'sparcbook at sunhelp.org'" <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:54:06 -0500
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> Subject: [SPARCbook] solaris 2.5
> Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
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> 
> Hello guys,
> 
> 	i know this might not be the right place to be sending this but i
> have purchased solaris 2.5 and for some reason neither star office nor any
> other application wants to install. they all give some type of error. it
> does not matter if i have them stored locally on the disk or trying to
> install from the cdrom. i have a sparcbook 3xp and it's been good to me so
> far...
> 	is this a problem with the verison of SunOS and if so, can anyone
> tell me how get a hold of 5.6 or 5.7 without having to drop a pretty penny
> for it since i am still in college?

 
 You may want to include whatever error messages you encountered. I've not
encountered any problems installing Star Office on Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
or 7 (which contains SunOS 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.6 and 5.7, respectively) and I
have compiled/pkgadd'd/installed plenty of other applications on each
version as well without problems as well.
  
 As for obtaining versions of Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7, under their
non-commercial use offerings they were roughly $10 for the media and
upwards of $18 for shipping... you'll probably need to call Sun and ask
them if either are still available. I believe that any other path would
lead to violating copyrights and licenses, but Sun will be best suited for
telling you what methods are legal and which are illegal.

 -david