Solaris 10 auf UltraSPARC I - Hinweise

[maal]

Hallo,

beim Lesen von comp.sys.sun.hardware bin ich wiedermal auf eine Antwort von Rainer Orth gestossen.

Sun Ultra 1 with Solaris 10?
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> > Can I install Solaris 10 instead?
>
> Out of the box: No. But if you feel like hacking around, you could
> always dig around in OpenSolaris, modify the Code to your needs
> and dump that onto Solaris 10. This configuration is however in
> no way supported by Sun.


This has been done already: see

http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~ro/opensolaris/webrev/us1/webrev/

for the code changes and

http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~ro/opensolaris/files/us1boot-snv_20060327.tar.bz2

for the modified inetboot and ufsboot files necessary to boot those machines.

You will need an install server, though, since you need to create symlinks

SUNW,Ultra-1 -> SUNW,Ultra-2

in Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/{platform, usr/platform} on the install media and
after the installation.

So right now this is not for the faint of heart, but a proposal to
integrate those changes back into OpenSolaris is on it's way:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=8028&tstart=30

Please note that the code above only works on an the Ultra 1E models (with
hme onboard), not on the Ultra 1 with le (Lance) ethernet.  There's a
separate proposal to revive le(7D), too, but no code yet.

Hope this helps.

Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University

Michael