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In <6qbvua$3aa$1@scream.auckland.ac.nz> amccullo@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (Alan MCCulloch) writes:

>I want to run Solaris 2.5 on an ELC, to run a certain
>lightly-used application continuously and reliably.

>The ELC has 24Mbyte, I've installed everything and
>it runs apparently OK. I'm planning to add another 16Mbyte SIMM
>to bring the ELC up to 40Mbyte, as 24Mbyte is a bit too
>cheap ! - even though it does run.

>My concern is that there might be some known problems
>running Solaris 2.5 on this old hardware, that might
>come up to bite me at a bad moment.

It will work fine. SunOS 5.5, as well as 5.5.1 and 5.6 (the most recent
release) all fully support the Sun-4c series of machines (comprising the
SS1, SS1+, SS2, IPX, IPC, SLC, and ELC).

The mono monitor should reduce the RAM usage by the Xserver (if you're going
to use OpenWindows), and with 40 meg it'll run very well with little need to
use much of the swap space on the disk drive (depending on the load, etc.).

Regards,

Craig.

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