[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Kevin Stevens]

You're asked during the installation script if you want to install 64bit
support - I don't know how it actually gets enabled.  psrinfo -v reports cpus
and speed.

KeS
-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf Of
Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 05:19
To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110


I was asking if there was some kind of setup when you installed the software,
Does it say "do you want to install this as 32 bit or 64 bit?"
Or is it just some kind of boot command like boot -s or pehaps a default set
from the OK prompt?
I am interested because we have some machines loaded with 2.7 and I'd like to
see if the CAD software
makes use of the 64 bit speed.
Also since I don't happen to have any idea - how do you tell what speed a
machine is presently running at?
-----Original Message-----
From:   dhansen at zebra.net [SMTP:dhansen at zebra.net]
Sent:   Friday, May 26, 2000 8:47 AM
To:     sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject:        RE: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" <robert.fuerst at sylvania.com>
> Do you need to install as 64 bit or is there a way to boot at 64 bit?  If so
> how do you boot at 64?  boot -s -64?
>
 I'm not sure what's being said there.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Bill Bradford [SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> > Sent:       Friday, May 26, 2000 11:40 AM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject:    Re: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110
> >
> > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:32:24AM +0000, dhansen at zebra.net wrote:
> > >Are you certain that you weren't told that only 64-bit installations
> > could be
> > > done on the Ultra platform?
> > >  -david
> >
> > This is false too - in fact, on any Ultra 1 machines, Sol7 and Sol8
> > default
> > to 32-bit due to a bug in the CPU, you have to explicity force them to
> > boot in 64-bit mode.
> >
> > If you mean "you can only install/run in 64bit mode on Ultra machines",
> > then
> > yeah, thats correct.
> >
 bad wording on my part. that should have read "...64-bit installations can
only be installed..." rather than "...only 64-bit installations...". thanks for
catching it.
 -david
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