[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on really old Sun hardware?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Rand All wrote:
> I'm not quite sure where to post this, but oh well.
> 
> I have some really old Sun workstations, like a SparkStation 5 and an Ultra 1.  I understand that OpenSolaris requires SPARCv9, so I see why the SS5 will never work with OS.  But what about the Ultra 1?
> 
> At the moment, it doesn't meet the minimum RAM requirement, but it should be able to take up to 1G RAM.  Aside from the memory requirement, is there any compelling technical reason why OS won't run on the Ultra 1?

Solaris 10 and later do, including OpenSolaris, do not run
on the UltraSPARC I CPU any more.   Ultra 2 is the current
bottom end for Solaris 10 & Express.   An Ultra 2 may work with
OpenSolaris 2009.06 as a headless server if you add enough
RAM and find some way to install it without a LiveCD or an
OpenBoot PROM new enough to support WANboot, but won't have
any graphics drivers available for workstation usage.

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