[Sunhelp] Re: Production Disksuite for Solaris 8

[Robert Brady]

This is a much tougher question to answer that I first thought.  Here's
what I have found:

o EA stands for Easy Access not Early Access(although there is a lot of
debate on this)
o The version of SDS that ships with 5.8 FCS is the officially supported
version of SDS
o It is NOT a beta release
o SDS 4.2.1 is supported on 5.7 & 5.8
o There shouldn't be a lot of bugs in the software as Bill reported since
there were not a whole lot of changes to the software.  The location of
binaries changed and bugs were fixed.  The x.x.1 implies that this is a
minor rev without major code changes.  
o If you are seeing a lot of bugs, 4.2 CAN be run on 5.8.


As for Bill's second question:
You can shoot over to www.sun.com and request an offical version of
Solaris 8 software for (I believe) $75.  There is a lot of restrictions on
what it can be used for, but it is the full release of Solaris.


Good Luck!


-=-r


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> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:09:23 -0500
> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Production Disksuite for Solaris 8?
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> 
> According to a Sun tech that my former employer called the other day,
> "there are still plenty of bugs in Disksuite for solaris 8" - he went
> bcak to Sol7 and everything worked.
> 
> On the same tip, anybody got a spare set of Sol8 FCS CDs, or willing
> to copy them for me?  I had to sell my set with my Ultra 1, which leaves
> me with nothing but a binary license for it, but only Sol8 EA media..
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:18:24PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> > A question to all of those out there who have received Solaris 8:
> > Is there a "production" release of Disksuite on your CDROMs?  Mine
> > (obtained through a Developer Essentials subscription) hide the Disksuite
> > directory inside the EA (early access) directory on the second OS CDROM.
> > Documentation from Sun seems to indicate that the software is on a
> > separate disc.  They mention the path several times as:
> > /cdrom/cdrom0/products/DiskSuite_4.2.1
> > This is Solaris 8 FCS, not the EA version.
> > -James
> 
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