John,

So you have to download an ISO to a working Unix or Linux OpSYS to install ?

Scott ford
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On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:08 AM, "Roberts, John J" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Media for Solaris 7, 2.6, and earlier show ups on eBay every so often.  For 
> Solaris 7 you need to be aware that there are both Desktop and Server 
> editions, plus versions for SPARC and x86 architectures.  Also, I found that 
> normal CDROM drives can't be used to boot the installation disk, at least for 
> the SPARC versions.  Back when I was experimenting, I found that Apple SCSI 
> CDROM drives did the job.
> 
> Solaris 8 on up was generally more friendly with PC hardware - the UltraSPARC 
> workstations used the PCI bus and IDE controllers.
> 
> John
> 
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