Ultra 45 & Solaris 8, yes or no?

Hi,

considering purchasing a few new workstations and in particular Ultra 45's. Currently have a Solaris 8 environment and need to know whether I can run Solaris 8 on these boxes or not.

Everywhere I've looked so far only mentions Solaris 10 1/06 which comes preinstalled, but I can I reinstall to Solaris 8?

Thanks in advance.

Mark

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# 1

Nope.Won't work.The old OS environment isn't compatible with the new-fangled hardware.Whatever choices you might have for pre-installed Solaris will be the minimum that is compatible.

rukbat at 2007-7-6 20:03:24 >

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# 2

Yes I agree with Rukbat, the earlier versions of Solaris don't have kernel support for PCI-E and PCI-X. Solaris is backward compatable, but then again you may have licensing issues. Contact Sun and request information about future Solaris 8/9 kernel revisions that may support this

mlennon at 2007-7-6 20:03:24 >

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