Which release?? branded solaris 9 and solaris 8.

Hi people:
First question using solaris 10u10 and making branded zones;
which releases of solaris 9 and solaris8 are reported. I mean the printout of cat /etc/release of that branded zones will be...
Second one.. can I use P2V to put a solaris 10u6 box into a Solaris 10u10 or solaris 11 on a T3-1B box.. I ask because the lowest solaris 10 supported is u9 on the T3-1B.
Third one.. If question 2 isn't doable with Solaris10u10 could be done with Solaris11? Yes using P2V.
Thanks for any comment!

Yes, you'll need the x86 version, not the SPARC version.
I'd guess you probably need a fairly late version of Solaris 9 too in order to even boot the kernel on the AMD processors.

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Is this a general rule-of-thumb we can expect in future: only supporting the last 2 updates of Solaris 10?
Your advice is appreciated.
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When I install Solaris 10 on any partition (Solaris installs correctly and works great), and then attempt to install Windows Vista, Vista says all of my partitions do not meet its requirements for installation (that the drive is NTFS and at least 12 GB is all it tells me). Even after formatting, deleting, recreating, and reformatting a drive, the drive is still unusable. Only after deleting ALL drives, including Solaris 10, and recreating and brand new first partition does Vista allow me to install. If I create a partition that Vista allows me to use, and also a partition to use with Solaris, and THEN install Solaris, the partition that Vista liked can no longer be used!
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Edited by: ZetaZeta on Sep 19, 2007 12:30 AM

In Solaris Express, this is not an issue, according to this weblog:
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http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/vista-and-solaris-express-dual-boot/
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I'm having similar problem. I've gone from this:
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
#/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d0 - - swap - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d10 /dev/md/rdsk/d10 / ufs 1 no -
/dev/md/dsk/d20 /dev/md/rdsk/d20 /var ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/emcpower1g /dev/rdsk/emcpower1a /db01 ufs 2 yes
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/dev/dsk/emcpower0g /dev/rdsk/emcpower0a /backup ufs 2 yes
/dev/dsk/emcpower2g /dev/rdsk/emcpower2a /disk01 ufs 2 yes
/dev/md/dsk/d50 /dev/md/rdsk/d50 /disk02 ufs 2 yes -
/dev/md/dsk/d40 /dev/md/rdsk/d40 /install ufs 2 yes
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
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I need to know what are the new featured in Solaris 9 and etc....
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Sunil.

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The following program is giving results diferently when I am executing using g++ compiler in Solaris and Linux.
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#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main( void )
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The following program is giving results diferently
when I am executing using g++ compiler in Solaris
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