[SunHELP] Upgrade advice - 2.5 > 2.7

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I have Solaris 2.8 on a Sparc 5.  It is a bit slow, but it loads and runs
2.8 fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: bran tregare [mailto:tregare2 at attbi.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 1:55 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Upgrade advice - 2.5 > 2.7


I have 2.8 (solaris8) on a sparc 10, no problem....

At 10:06 PM 2/23/02 -0800, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I have 4 workstations that run (among other duties) a PCB verification tool
>called Valor.  Valor claims that their latest version will not run on
>anything less than Solaris 2.7
>
>Problem - two of the stations are Sparc Station 10s, running Solaris 2.5*
>
>Since Sun neither supports the SS10 nor Solaris 2.5 (both end of lifed if I
>read the fine print correctly) I'm a bit out on the limb for official
>support.  Any guides, URLs, how-to, FAQ or other recourses for upgrading
>obsolete, but needed, equipment?
>
>Thx,
>
>Brian
>
>*yes, the equipment should have been replaced years ago.  I *had* a nice
>quote from our vendor for a pair of workstations to replace these when
>*wham* the company's finances imploded last year.  we're trying to "get by"
>until things get better....
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