[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Fri May 26 10:39:56 CDT 2000


On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:32:24AM +0000, dhansen at zebra.net wrote:
>Are you certain that you weren't told that only 64-bit installations could be 
> done on the Ultra platform?
>  -david

This is false too - in fact, on any Ultra 1 machines, Sol7 and Sol8 default
to 32-bit due to a bug in the CPU, you have to explicity force them to
boot in 64-bit mode.

If you mean "you can only install/run in 64bit mode on Ultra machines", then
yeah, thats correct.

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