Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:16:30 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, keith@mail.telestream.com Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000803131123.00b83740@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008031052450.8230-100000@mail.telestream.c om>
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I've heard lots of bad about the x86 version of Solaris but I was in the same situation as you. I had received Solaris 7 through Sun's "free" promotion (yeah right, $75 just for the media, luckily someone else paid for it) and thought what the hell, I'll install it on this old Pentium 90 (with a P333 you'll be happy). Anyway, it looks a lot like SPARC Solaris but I don't really know. It's fairly easy to install and setup but just be warned that it comes with nothing, NOTHING. When I was done I joked with some friends that this box should be called Gnu/Solaris because of all the Gnu utilities. Become familiar with the pkgadd command, especially "pkgadd -d. <name of package". Also, you can find LOTS of utilities at: <http://www.sunfreeware.com>; Also, after you install, immediately check Sun's sites for updates. I had to download a 16MB "patch" for Solaris 7. Oscar At 11:01 AM 8/3/00 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com, you wrote: >I know this is TOTALY off topic but since I've had zero response from the >'Solaris on Intel' list, I'll post here in hopes that someone here has had >some experience in this area. >I'm looking into learning Solaris and can't at the time aquire an actual >sun machine to do it. I have a spare P333 laying around that I'd like to >use for this. >My question is this. How different is the x86 version of Solaris from the >version that runs on an actual Sun machine? I'd hate to waste my >time learning it on x86 and have little or none of it port over to a true >sun box when I get around to purchasing one. Obviously there would be >hardware naming differences but other then that is it the same? Thanks for >any reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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