[SunRescue] Solaris 8 for intel on a 486?

[Mike Hebel]

The marketing speak just says you have to have 64meg of RAM and 600M - 1G
free space.
(http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/ds-intel/;$sessionid$0QQNLJAAABMOBAM
TA1LU5YQ) (You may have to re-construct that link.)

IMHO I think that on the 486 it may run but will be "Slowlaris" as some
people have called it. ;-)  I may be wrong.  If I listened to everyone then
I'd never even _try_ some things. (People told me I couldn't burn CD's on a
Pentium 60 - that's when I show them copies of the complete Solaris 2.6 - 8
CD-R collection on my office shelves.)

The worst you can do is try it and have it not load.  Then you have Solaris
Intel for a system you can use later.

Mike Hebel

(Note: Direct e-mail to this address may bounce.  Crosswinds.net has
instituted an annoying anti-spam technique that has caused me to not get my
mail from lots of places including work. *sigh*)

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
>>Behalf Of Chad Fernandez
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 3:00 PM
>>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>>Subject: [SunRescue] Solaris 8 for intel on a 486?
>>
>>
>>Okay this might be as crazy as puting Solaris on an Ipaq, but I don't
>>know enough to know it :-)
>>
>>I have a Unisys 486DX2/66 server that I would like to setup with Unix.
>>I bought the SCO Openserver 5.0.5 media kit from SCO a year ago, and
>>successfully installed it, but didn't do much else with it.  I would
>>really like to use Solaris, However.  I have an Uncle that has a cable
>>modem, and am thinking of asking him to download it for me.
>>
>>I have considered Linux (RH7), but would really rather use Unix.  I have
>>also thought about buying a used Sun machine, but when I buy a Sun, I
>>want a 670mp.  I haven't found one on Ebay close by, yet.
>>
>>Will Solaris 8 run on a 486?
>>
>>Chad Fernandez
>>Michigan, USA
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