[rescue] Sun Solaris questions...

[Bob Darlington]

Yep, late last night I found 2 GB kits for this thing and ordered one.  $80
shipped which feels expensive, but I can only imagine what this cost back
in the early to mid 90s.  Its a bargain!  ;-)

I'll keep it at Solaris 10.  Guys, thanks for the help on this one.  I went
down the wrong path thinking I could  get 11 on here because I didn't pay
enough attention when reading.  Don't be like me.l

I will say it felt a whole lot faster 15+ years ago when I was patching
Solaris 8 at work vs 10 here at home.

-Bob

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:22 AM Mike Spooner <mikes at aalin.co.uk> wrote:

> Max memory on the Ultra-2 is 2GB, 16x128MB (IIRC, must be installed in
> groups of 4).
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> As usual MemoryX appear to have 'em in stock.
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> I suspect the U2 firmware and S10 boot-loader were beyond the 512/2048
> shenannigans (ie: could cope with either).
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> Some SCSI DVD drive models could not reliably read DVDs containing more
> than 3.7GB of data and thus could not install later revs of S10 (the stock
> ones in the Ultra-10 were notorious for that, fixable with firmware
> upgrade, although some other makes/models seem to have the problem too).
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> Finally, burning S10 media can be a hit-and-miss affair on Sun systems -
> if you don't have original Sun media but just a (SPARC edition) ISO, I
> would transfer the ISO to a PC and burn it to DVD *there*.
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> Regards,
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> Mike
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> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:06 AM +0100, "Peter Stokes" <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> Hi Bob
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> A couple of questions...
> 1) can you read the media on the running system ok?
> 2) Does the drive have a 512/2048 jumper and for the DVD is set to 2048,
> 512
> for CD?
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> Also agree that 11 is not for the U2, stick with 10 last release was the 13
> one
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> You may want to increase the mem to 512/1gb however for 10, cannot remember
> the min values for 10.
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> Peter
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> Sent from my iPad
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> > On 31 Mar 2019, at 03:31, Bob Darlington  wrote:
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I recently resurrected my old Sun Ultra 2 dual 300MHz box.  This involved
> > cutting down into the NVRAM chip and attaching an external battery,
> finding
> > a 13W3  to VGA adapter, etc.
> >
> > It's running Solaris 10 on a 9GB internal disk with 256 MB RAM.
> >
> > I see that 11.4 is supported on the Ultra 2, but the minimum recommended
> > system memory is 4GB -twice the max for this system, and a whole lot more
> > than what I have.
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> > I can't for the life of me boot the install DVD and am getting "Can't
> open
> > boot_archive" and "fast data access mmu miss" below that.
> >
> > Is there some trick to this?  I've since copied the 10-Recommended
> patches
> > off a DVD I made back in 6/2010 with whatever was current there and am
> > currently patching the system (slow) so I know the DVD drive is at least
> > good enough for that.   It's an HP drive I use with my NeXT and have some
> > confidence in it, and is setup at the default scsi ID 6 where the
> internal
> > CDROM drive was.
> >
> > Is it worth it to even try going to 11.4?  When I see a minimum amount of
> > memory that high, I keep eyeballing my 2.6 CD.
> >
> > Thanks all,
> > Bob
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