Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Beardy wrote:
>
>
>>S9? Not Express? I'm surprised you can live without Zones and DTrace -
>>after all, they will be core components of your next book, I assume ;-)
>
>
> You assume correctly!

;-)

> I installed S9 for a number of reasons:
>
> * This will be my main production server, and I have a rule
> about not using pre-FCS OSes on those, no moatter how tempting
> it may be!

Agreed 100+% - what you gain in stability/supportability you lose in
fun. Although it is obv only a temporary loss.

> * I need to be able to run sunpci 2.3.2 on this machine, which
> panics S10 build 63!
>
> If it wasn't for the kernel panic, I'd be very tempted to run S10
> on this machine. Maybe it'll be fixed in the next build...
>

I don't know SunPCI, and I assume (again - it'll be the death of me)
that sunsolve / support contracts have not narrowed down the cause of
the panic...? Well build_next should be out in a week or so (if the
hiccups are ironed), so with luck.....


Beardy.