[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[bhinz]

I've been running sol 8 on a sparc 5 (70 mhz) for about two weeks now. I've had 
no problems and it actually runs much faster than I had expected!

-brian

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>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Alan Rubin <rubin at ezy.net>
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>Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110
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>So I guess the Sun people who told me that Sol8 would only work on the
>Ultra platform were wrong?
>
>alan
>
>On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> Try booting from "Software 1/2" cd, you get a "normal" solaris install.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:23:41PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
>> > Welp, I just installed Solaris8 on an old SS5-110 (from Data Instruments; 
top 
>> > notch folks).  You can read about Sol8 everywhere else, but nobody seems to 
be
>> > installing it on old sun4m hardware.  I decided to give it a whirl.
>> >The installation had problems.  First, you boot from the installation CD, 
which
>> > copies a miniroot to your hard drive.  It boots from the hd, then fires up 
a
>> >rather clumsy java installation 'kiosk.'  Unfortunatel, mine would tell me 
that
>> >it was 'extracting' and display a spinning disk for up to 48 hours before I 
hit
>> > exit.  Hitting exit was exactly what it needed, as it continued into the
>> > installation process.  I was also able to hit exit after 10 minutes the 
next
>> > time I installed (first CDROM drive was bad).  I considered removing the 
AFX
>> > card and doing the serial console installation, but things worked out in 
the
>> > end.
>> 
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>> |   Bill Bradford    |   Austin, Texas   |
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