> However, the LiveCD is still x86 only, as the SPARC release requires > network install, and the Free CD offer is for the 2008.11 release, > not the development builds which have SPARC support in, so the free > CD he order still won't help him. (And even with network install, > an Ultra 5 is limited to 512Mb RAM, so the combined RAM requirements > of ZFS root & IPS will likely make OpenSolaris very painful on such > an old machine.) > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
The U5 is a U10 in a smaller (desktop) chassis. So while only 512MB and no UPA boards were "supported" inside the U5's tiny chassis, with some physical adjustments (e.g. no floppy drive) you can have up to three generic 120GB IDE hdd's inside, plus a DVD-RW writer, plus 1024MB mem plus a Creator 3D plus bootable SCSI card (e.g. from LSI) plus a qfe card or Gigabit-NIC plus FireWire/USB2 combo card (at $9,-). Then the thing is full, but if a Creative Audigy2 SoundBlaster is more important to you, you can also have that (with grand,aster Juergen Keil's drivers from www.tools.de/solaris). So ... never say never. %m _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
