Ultra 45 & Solaris 8, yes or no?

Hi,
considering purchasing a few new workstations and in particular Ultra 45's. Currently have a Solaris 8 environment and need to know whether I can run Solaris 8 on these boxes or not.
Everywhere I've looked so far only mentions Solaris 10 1/06 which comes preinstalled, but I can I reinstall to Solaris 8?
Thanks in advance.
Mark

Yes I agree with Rukbat, the earlier versions of Solaris don't have kernel support for PCI-E and PCI-X. Solaris is backward compatable, but then again you may have licensing issues. Contact Sun and request information about future Solaris 8/9 kernel revisions that may support this hardware.

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Best way to update a solaris jumpstart OS image.

Hi all,.
Ive been recently building some v240's but have run into trouble with the rather out of date 02/02 instance of Solaris 8 (yes, i did say solaris 8 - it's a political thing..)
Anyhow, I have cd images of Solaris 8 02/04 and have a copy of the Sun Blueprints Jumpstart book by "Howard and Noordergraph".
On page 92, it says to use the "setup_install_server" script with the -b option for /jumpstart/OS/Solaris-xx-xx-xx.
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733 root@bbs00080 # ./setup_install_server -b /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_02-2004/
Verifying target directory...
setup_install_server:
The target directory /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_02-2004/ is not empty. Please choose an empty
directory or remove all files from the specified directory and run
this program again.
So i chose an empty directory and it goes and does it.
Is this an errata?
I already have /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_02-2002/ and I wanted to update the files so that I can boot the v240r.
Except 02/02 doesnt let me do that as it doesnt support the v240r arch.
Sun told me this, but I'm lost because my existing profile for this box, lists all the packages I want to install, but it whinges about not being able to find a .cdrom toc file.
I already have three flash archives which i created from good builds from 02/02, in my rules file which work, but this pesky update for the 240r is getting to be a little tricky.
So far, ive tried copying all the packages from 02/02/Products directory into 02/04/Products but some of them don't install despite being there.
Can anyone suggest the best way to update my 02/02 with the 02/04 boot loader for the v240?
Thanks in advance and sorry for any confusion.
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Also kindly note that its a 64 bit machine....
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# bash-3.00$ gcc hello.c -o hello
In file included from hello.c:1:
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:36:27: iso/stdio_i
so.h: No such file or directory
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error before '*' token
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error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:230: error: parse
error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:236: error: parse
error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:244: error: parse
error before "size_t"
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:249: error: parse
error before "size_t"
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:258: error: parse
error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:260: error: parse
error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:284: error: parse
error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:293: error: parse
error before '*' token
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:294: error: parse
error before "FILE"
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.2/include/stdio.h:295: error: parse
error before '*' token
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Thanks in advance
-Sjain

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-Sjain

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I had some trouble getting the system to boot, I tried changing some of the 4 pins wires going to the hard drive and the dvd drive. I don't know if it was luck or if I managed to divide the load properly for the system to boot. But I succeeded into booting up, got into the bios and eventually installed WinXP.
As soon as it was time to install the videocard drivers, it stopped responding. I assumed it was a power issue, since I could only install the 20pin and 4pin cpu, but my Chieftec PSU didn't have a 24pin plug to the mobo - and it needed replacing anyway! So I bought a new 500watt PSU that had all the required plugs and more wattage.
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didn't understand the question. please elabrote.
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s_black08 wrote:
My school uses sunOS 5.10. I have access to the system through ssh, but I can't seem to get any of my programs to run. I have tried them on our linux servers and my linux computer at home, but I can't seem to get it to work on a solaris workstation I am not sure if I am using the wrong command or what.
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3) I saw a demonstration of a really nice gui tool to
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Just bought the Mushkin Special PC3200 2-2-2 1gb (512x2)
Bios 2.1
Here's some disappointing result:
@400 @400
Turbo Ultra Turbo
PAT - Yes PAT - YES
2-2-3-6 (SPD) 2-2-2-6 (SPD)
@2.65V @2.75v
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AIDA 4456/1775 4668/1966
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Ultra Turbo
PAT - Yes
2-3-3-7-4
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4877/4889 (SANDRA2004)
4956/1698 (AIDA)
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Int Buffered iSSE2 (Integer STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4830MB/s
Scaling : 4835MB/s
Addition : 4921MB/s
Triad : 5039MB/s
Data Item Size : 16-bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 71% (estimated)
Float Buffered iSSE2 (Float STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4841MB/s
Scaling : 4821MB/s
Addition : 5033MB/s
Triad : 5037MB/s
Data Item Size : 16-bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 71% (estimated)
Test Status
Memory Used by Test : 512MB
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : Yes
Number of Test SMT (per CPU) : 2
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No
Chipset 1
Model : Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI) 82875P Memory Controller Hub
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Width : 64-bit
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Logical/Chipset 1 Memory Banks
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Bank 1 : 512MB DDR-SDRAM 2.0-3-2-5CL 1CMD
Channels : 2
Speed : 2x 217MHz (434MHz data rate)
Width : 64-bit
Performance Acceleration Technology : No
Maximum Memory Bus Bandwidth : 6944MB/s (estimated)
Features
MMX Technology : Yes
SSE Technology : Yes
SSE2 Technology : Yes
SSE3 Technology : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology : Yes
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