SUMMARY: Will Solaris 2.5 run on an Ultra-2 dual 200 Mhz CPU system?

From: Marc S. Gibian (gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil)
Date: Wed Aug 20 1997 - 12:10:58 CDT


I asked if I was going to be able to upgrade my SPARCstation 20 Solaris 2.5 to
an Ultra 2, as I was looking to basically just move the disks (or disk images)
to the new machine. I asked this as I prepare for the upgrade and thus do not
have the new system available for testing, nor any of its accompanying
documentation.

The answer is no because Ultra 2 HW is not supported until Solaris 2.5.1.

A secondary issue is that the Ultra 2 was probably purchased with a Solaris
client license when I need a Solaris server license to obtain the bundle of
layered product licenses for the software run on this server. This problem I am
working with my customer as they may already own a Solaris 2.5.1 server license
for a different Ultra 2 system which is NOT using any of the additional
facilities/capabilities present in Solaris server.

Many thanks to:

Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
Jaydeep Kulkarni <jay@cdac.ernet.in>
Gary Merinstein <gmerin@merin-a.dialup.dti.net>
KWhite@talisman-energy.com
"MJGARCIA.US.ORACLE.COM" <MJGARCIA@us.oracle.com>
mroo@asml.com (Mark de Roo)
Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>
Ian TCollins <itc1@scigen.co.uk>
Jens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>

-Marc

Marc S. Gibian
Telos Comsys phone: (617) 377-6350
PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
                           or is it: gibian@hanscom.af.mil
                        well, maybe: gibianm@hanscom.af.mil
              and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org

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My customer has ordered some new systems, the most important of which is a
replacement server which will be taking the server load currently handled by a
SPARCstation 20. Due to the manner in which it was purchased, there may be
licensing issues pushing us to run Solaris 2.5 on the new server. BUT, after
reading a few things on Solaris 2.6, 2.5.1, and the 2.5.1 4/97 releases, I
started wondering if this configuration can run:

Ultra-2 dual 200 Mhz CPU with Creator 3d graphics --> Solaris 2.5

TIA,
Marc

Marc S. Gibian
Telos Comsys phone: (617) 377-6350
PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
                           or is it: gibian@hanscom.af.mil
                        well, maybe: gibianm@hanscom.af.mil
              and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org



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