[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[dhansen at zebra.net]

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" <robert.fuerst at sylvania.com>
> Do you need to install as 64 bit or is there a way to boot at 64 bit?  If so
> how do you boot at 64?  boot -s -64?  
> 

 I'm not sure what's being said there.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Bill Bradford [SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> > Sent:	Friday, May 26, 2000 11:40 AM
> > To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110
> > 
> > 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.
> > 

 bad wording on my part. that should have read "...64-bit installations can
only be installed..." rather than "...only 64-bit installations...". thanks for
catching it.

 -david