From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:19:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42B8137B60A for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 14485 invoked by uid 0); 3 Aug 2000 18:19:40 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 18:19:40 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000803131123.00b83740@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:16:30 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, keith@mail.telestream.com From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've heard lots of bad about the x86 version of Solaris but I was in the same situation as you. I had received Solaris 7 through Sun's "free" promotion (yeah right, $75 just for the media, luckily someone else paid for it) and thought what the hell, I'll install it on this old Pentium 90 (with a P333 you'll be happy). Anyway, it looks a lot like SPARC Solaris but I don't really know. It's fairly easy to install and setup but just be warned that it comes with nothing, NOTHING. When I was done I joked with some friends that this box should be called Gnu/Solaris because of all the Gnu utilities. Become familiar with the pkgadd command, especially "pkgadd -d. Also, after you install, immediately check Sun's sites for updates. I had to download a 16MB "patch" for Solaris 7. Oscar At 11:01 AM 8/3/00 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com, you wrote: >I know this is TOTALY off topic but since I've had zero response from the >'Solaris on Intel' list, I'll post here in hopes that someone here has had >some experience in this area. >I'm looking into learning Solaris and can't at the time aquire an actual >sun machine to do it. I have a spare P333 laying around that I'd like to >use for this. >My question is this. How different is the x86 version of Solaris from the >version that runs on an actual Sun machine? I'd hate to waste my >time learning it on x86 and have little or none of it port over to a true >sun box when I get around to purchasing one. Obviously there would be >hardware naming differences but other then that is it the same? Thanks for >any reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message