Path: usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!isolar!isolar!not-for-mail From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Solbourne OS and X levels Date: 12 Aug 1994 22:41:34 -0700 Organization: Personal Usenet site, Tujunga, CA USA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32hmee$d8h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> References: <31o3t1$98j@gorgon.gatwick.Geco-Prakla.slb.com> <776435286snz@wyse.wyse.co.uk> Xref: usenet.ee.pdx.edu comp.windows.x:24171 comp.sys.sun.misc:10597 comp.sys.sun.admin:29047 In article <776435286snz@wyse.wyse.co.uk>, John Harvey wrote: >In article <31o3t1$98j@gorgon.gatwick.Geco-Prakla.slb.com> > condor@gatwick.Geco-Prakla.slb.com "Peter (Condor" writes: >> Hi, >> >> Can anyone tell me, or put me in touch with someone who knows, what >> happened to the Solbourne port of Solaris 2.3 and X11R6? > >Gone the same way as Solbourne I expect! Not completely; there is support for the Solbourne Series 5/5E/6 machines on the Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 5/94 and accompaning SPARC Vendor's Software for Solaris 2.3 CD-ROMs. The problem is that the (SunSoft) documentation makes reference to a Solbourne specific installation document which obviously doesn't exist, and it also makes reference to a Solbourne Patches CD-ROM which is the Solbourne "moral equivalent" to the Maintenance Supplement 1 CD-ROM, except that it is in Solbourne's "solpatch" format. I would suggest you look at the section entitled "Solbourne Product Notes" starting on page 4-13 of the "Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 5/94 SPARC Hardware Platform Guide", which comes with the Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 5/94 release box. There *are* people out there who have successfully booted the Hardware: 5/94 release on their Solbourne(s). It just takes a little effort and spelunking. -- - Greg Earle Phone: (818) 353-8695 FAX: (818) 353-1877 [Call # again if Internet: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US you get !FAX tone] UUCP: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV a.k.a. ...!elroy!isolar!earle