On 8/25/05, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:12 pm, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > Aren't Sun+Fujitsu now friends and share everything up to CPU development?
>
> They are, but Sun can't just make things available as OpenSolaris, especially
> in the case where the code is not theirs.
>
> > GA = ?
>
> Sun's General Availability release, that's the first release of Solaris 10,
> some might know it previously as FCS (first customer ship).
ok
>
> > Well, my use would be kernel development since this box is "free"
> > right now and provides a better (faster!) alternative compared to the
> > old Ultra1/Ultra5 machines (Ultra1 does not boot either btw).
>
> Ultra1, no, Sun had to make some decisions on what hardware they would support
> and it was determined that the Ultra1/2 were too old to continue support for.
This is *very* bitter given the fact that we still have over 90
Ultra1/Ultra2 in the cellar.
> The Ultra5 will run it fine though.
>
> I would never argue against a faster system.
Or a system which does not cost lots of money (Ultra 5 from EBay+new
card disk = ~~300Euro :-( ).
>
> Why not install S10 GA on there, which most likely ships on it, and then do a
> -I (Cap-Eye) install to put an additional kernel on there.
What is that?
> The other better solution would be to use Live Upgrade to have the S10 GA and
> OpenSolaris environments with the ability to activate either one.
This does not help if OpenSolaris does not boot...
Is OpenSolaris still binary compatible to Solaris 10? Would it be
possible to copy the Fujitsu binary modules from Solaris 10 over to a
OpenSolaris installation, making the system bootable?
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