[SPARCbook] Solaris/SunOS on RDI Powerlite

[Paul Weissmann]

ML [ml at rz.uni-potsdam.de] wrote:
> Solaris 2.6 shouls usually be fine - not as memory hungry as newer versions 
> ( depends on your memory, if you have 64MB or less I't stick with 2.6 if it 
> must be Solaris ) and not as weird as the older ones. To answer your 
> question - any Solaris that supports the sun4m architecture should work. 
> That includes anything between SunOS 4.1 ( or earlier ) and the very latest 
> Solaris 9 ( which won't install if you have less than 96MB ).

I have version 7 somewhere, will try that.

> On the other hand - the PowerLite is bog standard (read SS5) hardware from 
> the OS' point of view - you should have no problems at all runnimg Linux, 
> NetBSD or OpenBSD, any of these should perform at least on par with 
> Solaris.

I had OpenBSD on it, ran nicely.

> Or if you feel adventurous - try to find a copy of NEXTSTEP for SPARC, it 
> should work on this machine and CDs appear on eBay now and then. I'd have 
> tried it myself but it won't run on my 3GX ( unsupported framebuffer, 
> PCMCIA, mousestick and so on )

I also had NeXTSTEP 3.3 on it, though the installation was a pain.


	- paul