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Operating Systems Solaris Sun Ultra 5 new user Post 302968697 by jlliagre on Sunday 13th of March 2016 05:39:46 PM
Old 03-13-2016
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Originally Posted by _JonB_
What is the latest version of Solaris that will run comfortably on this machine? I have a copy of Solaris 10 but it will not boot (with a DVD reader installed it complains that it hasn't got enough memory). But I read that Solaris 10 on these machines is too slow.
Solaris 8 should run fine.
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Is the memory really limited to 512Mb? If that is true, how does the Ultra 10 (which I read uses the Ultra 5 motherboard) manage a maximum of 1Gb?
The U5 service manual is describing a four 256MB DIMM configuration leading to 1 GB so I guess it is possible.
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Is it "safe" to connect to the Internet? I'm thinking "vulnerabilities" here. Bear in mind it is sitting behind a firewall. I would like to be able to SSH into it from outside.
The obvious risk is to run unpatched services/libraries. You would need to run current openssh/openssl software and make sure the system is quickly updated when vulnerabilities are discovered.
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I notice it has no C compiler. What is the best approach for getting this installed, and how do I do it?
The simplest would be to find a gcc package for Solaris 8, this site looks to fit the need Index of /tgcware/sunos5.8_sparc/stable , it also had openssh/openssl packages.
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Finally, what's the best (fastest, most secure, easiest to use) Linux distribution for this and can it dual boot?
No idea.
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

esiop

ESIOP(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  ESIOP(4)

NAME

     esiop -- Enhanced Symbios Logic/NCR 53c8xx SCSI driver

SYNOPSIS

     esiop* at pci? dev ? function ?
     options SIOP_SYMLED
     scsibus* at esiop?

DESCRIPTION

     The esiop driver provides improved support over siop(4) for the Symbios Logic/NCR 53x8xx series of SCSI controller chips:

	   -   53c825 and 53c825a (Fast-Wide SCSI)
	   -   53c875 and 53c875j (Ultra-Wide SCSI)
	   -   53c876 (Dual Ultra-Wide SCSI)
	   -   53c885 (Ultra-Wide SCSI and Ethernet)
	   -   53c895 (Ultra2-Wide SCSI)
	   -   53c896 (PCI 64bit, dual Ultra2-Wide SCSI)
	   -   53c1010-33 (PCI 64bit, dual Ultra160 SCSI)
	   -   53c1510d (PCI 64bit, dual Ultra2-wide SCSI)
     Older adapters are supported by the siop(4) driver.

     The SIOP_SYMLED option causes the driver to report SCSI activity on the GPIO pin 1, which is connected to the activity LED on some adapters.
     At this time only the 53c895 based Symbios and Tekram adapters are known to require this.

SEE ALSO

     cd(4), ch(4), intro(4), pci(4), scsi(4), sd(4), siop(4), st(4), uk(4)

HISTORY

     The esiop driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.

AUTHORS

     The esiop driver was written by Manuel Bouyer <Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr> for NetBSD.

BSD
								  April 23, 2002							       BSD
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