[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Alan Rubin]

So I guess the Sun people who told me that Sol8 would only work on the
Ultra platform were wrong?

alan

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Try booting from "Software 1/2" cd, you get a "normal" solaris install.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:23:41PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> > Welp, I just installed Solaris8 on an old SS5-110 (from Data Instruments; top 
> > notch folks).  You can read about Sol8 everywhere else, but nobody seems to be
> > installing it on old sun4m hardware.  I decided to give it a whirl.
> >The installation had problems.  First, you boot from the installation CD, which
> > copies a miniroot to your hard drive.  It boots from the hd, then fires up a
> >rather clumsy java installation 'kiosk.'  Unfortunatel, mine would tell me that
> >it was 'extracting' and display a spinning disk for up to 48 hours before I hit
> > exit.  Hitting exit was exactly what it needed, as it continued into the
> > installation process.  I was also able to hit exit after 10 minutes the next
> > time I installed (first CDROM drive was bad).  I considered removing the AFX
> > card and doing the serial console installation, but things worked out in the
> > end.
> 
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