RE:run Solaris 8 on X86 laptop

Hi Gurus,
Anyone know which laptop can run Solaris 8 for Intel well? I just ordered Solaris 8 for Intel and am thinking to buy a laptop.
i'd highly appleciate your help
Gary

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html

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I'm looking any information about this hardware.
thanks

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I downloaded the DVD images for Solaris 10 x86, and tried to install it on my amd64-based laptop.
1) The first thing that happens is that sometimes at the start, the keyboard will not work when I am asked the kind of installation, or to press the ESC key to enter the DCA.
2) When I successfully enter the installation, I am able to install all. It seems Solaris recognises all the devices on the system. However, when I reboot to start the OS, the system tells me that "it cannot mount the root filesystem"...which is quite strange, since it succesfully (at least I suppose, since I do not get any warnings) installs all the packages.
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All--
Does WLS 4.5.1 run on Solaris 2.7 (x86) or does it not? The system in
question was running Solaris 2.6 (x86) and WLS 4.5.1 ran quite happily
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We have not certified on X86 Solaris, there is no business case for it.
Having said that I think this library should only load if you are running
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Mark G.
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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Does WebLogic6.1 run on Solaris for Intel (X86) platform?

Is there an solaris8.0 Intel platform version of Weblogic6.1? If so Has anyone
had any success installing weblogic6.1 server on an intel platform running solaris8.0?
Thanks in advance.
Ron

Hi.
We only support SPARC systems running solaris 8.
Regards,
Michael
Ron wrote:
Is there an solaris8.0 Intel platform version of Weblogic6.1? If so Has anyone
had any success installing weblogic6.1 server on an intel platform running solaris8.0?
Thanks in advance.
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Developer Relations Engineer
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Solaris 8 on x86: been there, am back

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ash could really be replaced by bash or anything with command line completion for instance, etc etc.
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Hello,
Actually, I have had a miserable experience attempting to install Solaris 8 on "ANY" INTEL hardware I have. At least, you were able to get it to install. It's a shame though, Sun and others complain about how Microsoft is trying to monopolize, but as much as I do agree for the most part, I have to give it to MS. Their OS' 95/98/W2K/NT, they all work on "ANY" hardware it seems as long as you can get the drivers from the manufacturer -- from the oldest to the newest machines.
For Sun to enjoy a better share of the market, it needs to spend more time ensuring its OS works(even if it's not supported) on most INTEL H/W. This will ensure people, like myself(consultants) who are looking at new possibilities for Unix can seriously consider the product by evaluating it on simple machines and once proven can actually consider the product as part of a recommendation to customers. What this has reaffirmed, is that, the big 3 Unix houses -- HP, SUN, and IBM have a great product on Mid-to-Mainframes but are still sleeping while MS makes a BIG whole in their pocket with software that works on ANY! platform or H/W. The reality is that I would be hard pressed to recommend Linux for any "Prime Time" production(don't get me wrong, Linux is just fine and I use it and will continue to use it, but it's not ready for prime time) application and although I do not believe MS NT or 2K has the maturity of Unix, it certainly stands out in terms of viability. If this is another way to sell more proprietary boxes, I'll just say -- remember what happened to apple? Great product with a very smaaall market share...
As you can tell, I am deeply dissapointed because SUN make awsome workstations and servers and can easly translate that success to the INTEL platform by having their software run on more H/W(even if it's not supported). This would definitely go a long way, in my opinion, to gain the market share they seem to be wanting to acquire since they did take MS to court.
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I am trying to install Solaris 10 on a laptop (HP Pavilion zv6000 with an amd64 processor).
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Can I install Solaris 10 on a laptop? I have a Dell P4...with Windows XP already installed....512 MB RAM, 40 GB HD.
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# /opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-start -a
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[email protected]
http://www.HalcyonInc.com

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It's a system with Intel Celeron D with 64-bit and Hyper Threading support, DDR2 1Gb.
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Is there a 32-bit version of Solaris Express DE x86?
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never thought about it, in fact.
But does it mean Solaris Express DE x86 runs as
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Have older x86 software I would like to bring into use.
Does anyone know if versions older than 8/9 are available to download (free). ?v2.5
Thanks,
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Running solaris 10 on new machine.
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Thanks,
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Solaris Licensing on x86

We are currently in the process of preparing a proposal to one of our customers.
Our customers environment is based on Solaris (SPARC) and we hope to replicate some of that environment in our location on Solaris ( x86) and use it for development and performance testing.
My question is does the OTN license cover the Solaris licenses or do we need to purchase additional licenses?

In my opinion Oracle is on a good way to banish the loyal Solaris x86 customers like us, which have big server like Sun Fire X4600 M2. As we are a public company, we need to do public tenders for machine, so we get what we get, maybe Sun-Oracle, maybe HP, whoever make the better deal.
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Native Solaris 10 x86: 8 x 1584 = 12672 € / year
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Oracle VM with Solaris 10: (hard partitioning) ... grey area
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Oracle Linux Premier Support = 1.812 €/ year ... per system, number of cpus is not counting (factor 10)
Oracle Linux Network Support = 93.96 € / year ... per system, number of cpus is not counting (factor 120, if you don't want support on a call basis, just the software & patches).
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And no, the sales representative are clueless, whoever I call, can not give me clear saying e.g about running Solaris on Oracle VM, are e.g. Fujtsu maschines like M4000 out of scope or not.
Quite fed up with this topic ...
kind regards, thomas

Solaris on old x86

Hi!
I would like to ask if anyone succeeded in installing Solaris 10 on laptop with AMD K6-475MHz or similar and use it with satisfacory comfort (web developing). I am willing to migrate but not sure whether this is best choice (if you compare it with FreeBSD 5.x).

I'm running Solaris 10 on similar box.
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