I have a Sun Ultra 1 Creator which currently has Solaris 8. I am currently downloading Solaris 10 and planning to reinstall from scratch. The Ultra 1 is pretty old and I dont have the password. Is there anything extra I need to do to make sure the Ultra1 boots from the cd-rom?
Has anyone had any expeirces running this operation on this machine? Does it run pretty well?
Solaris 10 will not install to any of the various Ultra-1 models.
The hardware is too old.
As of this date, you would need at least an Ultra-2.
This link mentions the current list of supported platforms:
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-expre ss/supported_platforms.xml" target="_blank">http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/supporte d_platforms.xml</a>
In particular, see the footnote on that web page that states:
<font color="darkblue">Please Note: 32-bit Solaris kernel is no longer supported, nor is there support for UltraSPARC processors running <u>at or below 200 MHz</u>. </font>
If you have a need to install it to <i>something</i> so as to learn the various new OS features, then consider using a PC.
Solaris 10 runs very well on most any 500MHz -- 1GHz PC.
You would only miss the OBP functionality, but your current Ultra-1 system can give you that.
Pull down the disk images for Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and reinstall one of them, instead.
<a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Software/" target="_blank">http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Software/</a>
Lastly, a Google search on "Solaris root password" will give you whatever guidance you'll need for that.
