In case you guys are interested, following Suns Solaris 9 release last month, Fujitsu Siemens have released it on Primepower this month.

Independant story from The Register.

Dave

 

I just downloaded it from Sun this morning and am installing it on an E420R as I type this!!!!!

 

Nice one Dave

Simon - had many problems with the daughterboards working loose over time on the E420Rs yet?

 

Not yet, and I had our E420R shipped to Southamton from California!!!! Thanks for the tip though!

Simon.

 

seen a few Dr Evil.

 

I'm just trying to convince work to let me install sol.9 on some of the new sunfires we are getting delivered soon.

took me about 3 months and constatnt meetings to convince them to install solairs 8 over 2.6, so I rekion by christmas I'll have it licked!

only running it at home now though

 

Just finished up testing our product this morning, and seems fine on Solaris 9, nice that they put things like SSH in there, so I don't have to screw around setting that up too.

Simon.

 

Simon - BTW the daughterboard in question is for the memory, its got very specific torque settings on the screws - SO DON'T USE YOUR TORQUE-FINGERS! as that might snap the motherboard or break the daughterboard.. It only seems to happen if a) there a lot of them in one rack or b) you have another system in the same rack that vibrates/resonates a hell of a lot...

Alex

 

PS. got our offical copy of Solaris 9 this morning in the post, full blown version

 

That'll be why it came with some sort of memory insertion tool then?????

The one we have is fully loaded with memory, but I'll bear that tip in mind as we may be inheriting a mixed lot of 13 E220Rs and E420Rs from somewhere, if a deal comes off!

I personally own an Ultra 5 333MHz, but will leave this on Solaris 8 as it works nicely.

Simon (the company UNIX bod).

 

Rack?????? ours is sat on a desk!!!! In a room with no air con, gets damn hot in there.

Simon.

 

Any of you tried installing Solaris 9 from a jumpstart server yet???

 

Nah, just CDs that I made from the images on Sun's site.

 

sol 9 should just be the same as sol8.

Just do a flarcreate, add_install_client and wait 40 minutes. Fully installed system with veritas + root disk mirror'd.

well, mine does that is