You have taken it a lot further than I would have.
For an Ultra 5 or 10, I probably would not have gone past Solaris 10, and due to
your ram being well under 4 Gb, I would stay on UFS vs ZFS.
When you say "Solaris 11 install" in reference to this box, do you mean an
install of Sun OpenSolaris? Or Oracle Solaris 11 Express? By default, and
beginning with Solaris 11 proper, Oracle Solaris 11 will not install on a Sparc
system unless it is a T series or M series at the low end.
I understand you stating it is a good box, I have an Ultra 10 myself that is
still chugging along, either way, I would take this time to max out the ram on
your system. I believe that the Ultra 5/10 system board will hold 1 Gb of RAM.
It seem that you have quite a few more years planned into your Ultra 5, and it
is available new for reasonable prices, or there are a number of old hardware
support list where I suspect that you could acquire more RAM for the cost of
shipping.
Jerry
On 02/ 1/15 12:09 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Hi,
My Solaris 11 install is getting a little long in the tooth and I still
use this poor old machine kind of a lot for small development, pdp11
emulation and its real serial ports, etc. I would like to keep it because
it's pretty low power, reliable as dirt, and still supports the very
comfortable Sun type 4 unix keyboard, which I still feel a little paralyzed
trying to do without. I'm running into problems with new software (CSW, in
particular) wanting more recent libs than the OS has. So I guess (*sigh*)
it's time to update the OS bits.
Is it feasible to install Hipster or OI on such a meagerly appointed
machine? I don't even have a dvd player; just cd.
SunOS beep 5.11 snv_65 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Memory size: 256 Megabytes
thx
jake
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