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Gentlemen:

I am looking for the installation
instructions for Solaris 1.1 And/Or
Solaris 1.1.2 (for the Sparc Station 20
platform).

I already have the Solaris software on
CDs but need the installation instructions.

Dose anybody have these directions laying
about???

I have already searched the Sun sites to no
avail. Sun seems to prefer to focus on
Solaris 8 and onward.

Thomas Dineen
tdineen@ix.netcom.com

> I have already searched the Sun sites to no
> avail. Sun seems to prefer to focus on
> Solaris 8 and onward.

As we should expect!

Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but very I'm glad Sun's more
focused on recent systems and future development.

Thomas Dineen wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> I am looking for the installation
> instructions for Solaris 1.1 And/Or
> Solaris 1.1.2 (for the Sparc Station 20
> platform).
>
> I already have the Solaris software on
> CDs but need the installation instructions.

Type "boot cdrom". Or, on older machines, type "b cdrom" or
even [accessing... accessing... please wait while dormant brain
cells are reactivated... ready.] "b sd(0,6,2)" assuming that
the CD-ROM is at SCSI target #6.

From there, I think you just need to type "suninstall" at the
prompt and follow the directions.

When partitioning, I don't believe there is any guidance as
to what size the partitions need to be or even what the layout
should be. But, you should be safe with a 50MB root at slice 0,
swap space of whatever size you want at slice 1, and a 250MB /usr
at slice 6, and the remainder at slice 7. You might also think
of making a separate /var, which is not necessary, but it is
better (required? I can't recall) that /usr be separate.

After you reboot, you will probably want to configure a custom
kernel, although I think you can get by without it. I've forgotten
exactly which directory you go into to do this, but when you
get there, you type "config MYCONFIG" and then "cd MYCONFIG"
and "make", then wait for it to compile and put the resulting
vmunix into /vmunix.MYCONFIG, rename /vmunix to /vmunix.GENERIC
and then "ln /vmunix.MYCONFIG /vmunix". If your new kernel
is broken, you can boot with "boot /vmunix.GENERIC". At least,
I think that's the syntax -- Solaris 2.x and later, you don't
need to worry about that, so I haven't had to do that in a long
time and can't recall exactly.

For more help, you could try searching for "suninstall" at
groups.google.com and limiting the time period to stuff before,
say, 1995.

- Logan

Thomas Dineen <tdineen@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>I am looking for the installation
>instructions for Solaris 1.1 And/Or
>Solaris 1.1.2 (for the Sparc Station 20
>platform).

Why would you want to install a 10 year old OS?

>I already have the Solaris software on
>CDs but need the installation instructions.

Boot cdrom?

Casper
--
Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

Thomas Dineen wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> I am looking for the installation
> instructions for Solaris 1.1 And/Or
> Solaris 1.1.2 (for the Sparc Station 20
> platform).
>
> I already have the Solaris software on
> CDs but need the installation instructions.
>
> Dose anybody have these directions laying
> about???
>
> I have already searched the Sun sites to no
> avail. Sun seems to prefer to focus on
> Solaris 8 and onward.
>
> Thomas Dineen
> tdineen@ix.netcom.com
>

On my SS20:

webserver2 /export/home/drkirkby % uname -a
SunOS webserver2 5.9 Generic_117171-12 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20

why not do the same and install Solaris 9? (But patch it a bit more
regulary than me) You can buy Solaris 9 from Sun's site for a nominal
fee and no doubt get it for free if you hunt around.

Solaris 10 will not work on the SS20.

Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:
>Why would you want to install a 10 year old OS?

I'm not the OP...

We have a crummy old non-solaris sun with a whacky card in it
that you-can't-get-anymore/is-real-expensive that's not
on the network which is used (via the connection associated
with the card) to xfer data to a mainframe. The sun is too
old to run solaris on, I'm told... The sun is, in turn, associated
with a microfiche printer/thing that is apparently too expensive
to upgrade or replace.

-Mike "trying to come up with a reason"

Dave wrote on 2005-11-04 16:24:

>
> Solaris 10 will not work on the SS20.
>

Hmmm, I also have SS20 with Solaris 9, this works great. Are you saying
that I cannot install Solaris 10 on my trusty old SS20s? And if so,
what's the reason for this?

--
- Erlend Leganger

Erlend Leganger <noname@nodomain.no> writes:
>Dave wrote on 2005-11-04 16:24:
>> Solaris 10 will not work on the SS20.

>Hmmm, I also have SS20 with Solaris 9, this works great. Are you saying
>that I cannot install Solaris 10 on my trusty old SS20s? And if so,
>what's the reason for this?


Nope, they dropped support for sun4m, just like they announced in the
Solaris9 release notes. One reason is that Solaris 10 only runs in
64-bit mode, which would be kind of hard to do on a 32-bit sun4m processor.

In comp.unix.solaris Erlend Leganger <noname@nodomain.no> wrote:
> Dave wrote on 2005-11-04 16:24:
>
>>
>> Solaris 10 will not work on the SS20.
>>
>
> Hmmm, I also have SS20 with Solaris 9, this works great. Are you saying
> that I cannot install Solaris 10 on my trusty old SS20s? And if so,
> what's the reason for this?

That's exactly what he's saying. S10 is 64-bit only, and cannot run on
anything below an UltraSPARC-II processor (i.e. >200MHz).

Colin

hubcap wrote:
> Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:
>
>>Why would you want to install a 10 year old OS?

> We have a crummy old non-solaris sun with a whacky card in it
> that you-can't-get-anymore/is-real-expensive that's not
> on the network which is used (via the connection associated
> with the card) to xfer data to a mainframe. The sun is too
> old to run solaris on, I'm told...

That makes it a VERY old Sun machine. As far as I know, all
of Sun's SPARC machines can run some version of Solaris 2.x.
Even a Sun-4/370 can run Solaris 2.4.

- Logan