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# 15  
Old 03-12-2012
I take it all back and someone who worked for Sun as a driver/kernel writer for almost 20 years will have to buy me some beers!Smilie
# 16  
Old 03-12-2012
Technically, you should be able to run Solaris 10, OpenSolaris based distributions and Solaris 11 Express on a SB100. However, low end SB100 have 512 MB of RAM, not enough for the installer to complete successfully.

In such case, you might install milax, a lightweight OpenSolaris based OS. The bootable CD doesn't seem to be downloadable any more but there are wanboot images here.

In any case, here is a useful SB100 FAQ: 040.digital-bless.com: Unofficial SUN Blade 100 FAQ
Last edited by fpmurphy; 03-14-2012 at 10:16 PM.. Reason: I was confusing SB100 and V100
# 17  
Old 03-13-2012
All UltraSPARC CPUs are 64-bit.

The current release of Solaris 11 won't run on an UltraSPARC IIe, but any version of Solaris 10 shoud run just fine - just don't use the JDS desktop, it'll be waaaay too slow. Use CDE instead. Better yet, just disable X Windows logins on the box entirely and SSH/telnet in from a new Linux box or similar and use the remote display.
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