29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
4:32 p.m.
Don Y wrote:
Scott Quinn wrote:
I just inherited a U10 (400+?). I was planning on installing 8.
Is it wiser to move to something else? (I need 8 for Jaluna
cross-development but can keep that on my U1 if need be)
Solaris 8 is a bit weird about installing IDE drives with the bigdisk
capacity command.
I had to do some finagleing with the format process to get anything
bigger than
8gb to be created.
I am running 9 with a 120gb (130 is the magic spot where the disk size
commands break).
My friend who is running 10 reported at the time he loaded it on a 5 (same
processor and motherboard as the 5) that it required no intervention
in the formatting, it just worked.
I plan to download and try to run 10 with the development stuff, sometime
this summer.
Solaris is much better than most OS's about multi booting. you can stop
the boot process and specify a different root partition and have both 8
and 10 on the same drive, or on separate drives. The firmware specifies
the target that gets booted, and you can change the eeprom under solaris
to specify which one to boot, then reboot to switch from one to the
other with a convenient script on both.
Jim
Solaris 9 is the last version to run on all
64-bit Ultras; Solaris
10 is very impressive from a networking and virtualization
standpoint (plus ZFS kicks some serious ass) and is what you should
be running if at all possible.
So where's your line between 9 and 10? I just moved from a U1 200E to
a U10 333, and I stuck with
5.9 because I was concerned about usability on the U10.