[geeks] Solaris 2.6 PPC beta anyone ?

Andrew Jones andrew at jones.ec
Tue Feb 19 10:07:30 CST 2013


On 02/19/2013 10:58 AM, Walter Belgers wrote:
> On 19 feb. 2013, at 16:55, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
>>> I'm now running Solaris 2.5.1/PPC on Motorola Powerstack.
>>
>> Wow, that is a heck of a neat/rare setup.  How well does it work?  As
>> many different Solaris/SunOS machine combos that I have worked on
>> (Soulborne, Axil, Tatung, Fujitsu, etc., and lots of random Solaris 8+
>> x86), I've never seen Solaris/PPC or Sun386i/Sun486i.  I'd love to see
>> (or even better own!) both of those.
>
> It is indeed neat. I've never been succesful in getting Solaris to run on my
> Motorola PowerStack.
>

Does the PowerStack require special install media or something ?  (I 
mean, special relative to a PReP thinkpad or what-have-you)


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