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In <35473848.6F05@nsc.com> Mike Robinson <Michael.Robinson@nsc.com> writes:

>Did I miss something?

>I just read a posting that inferred that Solaris 2.5.1
>wouldn't run on anything less than an Ultra 5.  Is this true?

No. Solaris 2.5.1 will run on everything back to the 4/6xx SunVME Mbus
systems. 

Solaris 2.6 dropped support for the 4/6xx series during the beta releases
(initial beta releases contain 4/6xx support), so the sun-4c series (SS1,
SS1+, SS2, IPC, IPC, SLC, ELC) are the oldest machines now supported.

I doubt any release that come out in the next year or so will drop the
sun-4c line, but around y2k I'd expect the sun-4c line to be dropped from
future releases, with the Sun-4m line (LC, LX, SS5, SS10, SS-20, etc.)
becoming the oldest line supported.

>I have a borrowed SPARC 5 with a 2.1G hdd and a CD-ROM drive.

>I have a SPARC 10 with a 480MB hdd and NO CD-ROM drive.

>I want to install a minimum Solaris 2.5.1 on the SPARC 10 to
>put it on our network and client as a workstation.

>I pulled the CD-ROM from the SS5 and put it into the SS10
>to load Solaris 2.5.1.  The 'boot cdrom' will load the first
>part of the os but then crashes with a data transfer overrun
>error.

Check the SCSI termination. I found this to be a problem with a long
external SCSI cable and a Toshiba XM-4101B CD-ROM drive so I removed as much
surplus cable segments as I could (i'd chained afew cables together for
another project) and changed the terminator from a passive to an active one.

>I put the CD-ROM back in to the SS5 and pulled the 480MB drive
>from the SS10 and put it into the SS5.  All appears to go fine.
>Solaris 2.5.1 installs, I add CDE and all is well.  

>I pull the 480MB hdd (with Solaris 2.5.1) from the SS5 and put 
>it back into the SS10.  The boot portion of SunOS Release 5.5.1
>loads but then crashes with: 

>BAD TRAP: type=9 rp=fbe1cc34 addr=c mmu_fsr=1a6 rw=2
>: Data fault

>Is there a difference between the SS5 and SS10 that won't
>allow them to swap hardware?

>Is it a fluke that the SS5 will run on 2.5.1?

This is probably something the Sun engineering people can answer, but you
might want to boot with the '-r' option to make it reconfigure for the
different system.

I've been told that  moving the disk in this machine (a Sparc LX) to a Sparc
10 or 20 won't work, so maybe you're seeing the same sort of problem.

Can someone give a definitive answer?

Regards,

Craig.
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