[SPARCbook] solaris 2.5

[Ken Hansen]

Are you sure you have sufficient filespace for the install - IIRC, the
install takes the package, stores it temporoarily in one filesystem, then
installs in potentially another. I seem to recall that Star Office wanted a
large amount of swap for the install as well...

HTH, as noted below, the actual error messages would be useful.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hansen" <dhansen at salug.org>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] solaris 2.5


>
>
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 sparcbook-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
> >   1. solaris 2.5 (Segleau, Rodolfo)
> >
> > Message: 1
> > 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
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Subject: [SPARCbook] solaris 2.5
> > Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
>
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