[SPARCbook] Solaris 9 on a 3gx ?

[Koyote]

Yes- solaris 9 will run on a 3gx. BUT- the graphics drivers don't exist for the weitek fb.

so no graphics. BUt I did notice that solaris 9 seems to perform fairly well on the 3gx (mine has 128meg ram)


Solaris 9 DOES support sun4m (4d got EOL'd after 8, but I think that was all for that change.) (Yes, people will talk about other sun4 archs that are no longer supported, but those happened with 7 and 8, previous to 9. I'm being specific)

There's no reason at all not to run solaris 9 if the fb driver can be made to work- unfortunately, that seems to be beyond my skills. 2.6 isn't "just as good" for many reasons.

-C 

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:22:25PM -0800, Jonathan Kalbfeld wrote:
> You won't really derive much advantage of Sol 9 on a 3gx--Sol 9 gives you
> the ability to respond to dynamic reconfiguration events.  The 3gx doesn't
> support those AFAIK.  Also, you won't derive any advantage from the 64-bit
> kernel.  I'd say just run 2.6 (5/98 version from Sun should work) or buy a
> copy of the Tadpole Solaris 2.7 version (I think there's probably one or
> two people on here who might have a copy to sell)
> 
> I don't even know if 9 will work on sun4m.  Solaris 8 might be the last
> version that does.  If you find me wrong, let us all know, since it would
> be nice to run the latest Sol on my little sparcbook.
> 
> -jonathan
> 
> P.S.  If anyone knows of any sysadmin leads, part or full time, I am
> an unemployed sr. solaris guy.  I'm attempting to make ends meet by
> moonlighting as a stockbroker but the hours are rought here in San
> Francisco (6:30 am every day) so I'd rather just go back to babysitting
> UNIX servers.  There's cash prizes for the winner.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >     I have just joined. I got my hands on a 3gx witha a failed HD unit and I
> > am thinking of setting up a newer version of Solaris - possibly the latest!
> >
> >     So... any feedback on setting up solaris 9 on a 3gx ? Did anybody try ?
> > what happens with the frame buffer drivers ?
> >
> >     -Federico
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