I tried running the binaries on a sun blade 1500 with a sparc processor and solaris 10, but i get errors like. Sun blade 1500 workstation product notes silver oracle docs. A solaris 11 vm assuming on x86 wont mount a sparc disk, unless perhaps if it is an efi disk with zfs. Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006 onwards.
Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006. Sun blade 1500 getting started guide red oracle docs. Jan 24, 2016 some dorqish commentary whilst i install solaris 8u7. Are there any interesting points i need to watch for in the. Installation of solaris 11 on sun fire t stack overflow. Sun has released solaris 10 cds for free usage download. Every sun ultra 25 workstation ships with a full suite of sun s awardwinning development toolsthe. I took this a week or two ago, before hooking my hp9k back up. Sun bladetm 1500 workstationtechnical informationspec sheet. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992.
Sun blade 1500 silver flash prom update the difference between the silver and non silver versions are denoted visually by the colour of the. C h a p t e r 4 troubleshooting and technical support. Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation. Moving to solaris 10 on a sunblade 1500 i am using a sunblade 1500 that currently runs solaris 8 and i would like to install solaris 10. Second, it turned out, that apparently you need an active support contract with oracle to be eligible for this download. All the documentation ive found is very solaris specific it assumes having a solaris install server. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. The sun blade series is a computer workstation line based on the ultrasparc microprocessor. I added a new drive with more space, installed solaris 10, java 8 jre, and oracle developer studio 12.
Was devastated when i found out solaris 11 wouldnt run on it due to drivers and cpu qualification. Solaris is the most scalable, secure, and available operating system in the traditional workstation market, and supports the largest number of technical applications in this class. Hi everybody, im having big troubles in installing solaris 8 on a sun blade 150. There is no fdisk partition table on sparc disks, as they arent using bios. Mar 12, 2007 hi all, i tried installing the solaris for sun blade 1500 and after installation.
Removing dimms dimm location and identification figure 11 1 depending upon the configuration of your workstation. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. Oracle solaris provides a flexible, cost efficient, cloudready solution perfect for your data center. I had in my it personnal box an old ide hard drive that i plugged in that sun blade. The sun blade series is a computer workstation line based on the ultrasparc microprocessor family, developed and sold by sun microsystems from 2000 to 2006. So i downloaded the os from the oracle website according to the documentation i found, to install solaris 10 from openboot should be quite easy. The adapter software installer is a onestep program that allows you to install all adapter software and outofbox drivers, including both ethernet and storage drivers. Installing oracle solaris 10 on sun blade introduction. Oracle solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. Process netbeans opensolaris opensparc openjdk osum. Solaris express is a good option for the adventuresome. Sun blade 2500 service, diagnostics, and troubleshooting manual, 8175117 sun blade 2500 getting started guide, 8175119 sun blade 2500 product notes, 8175121 find solaris and other software documents here. The sun ultra 25 workstation combines the legendary quality and reliability of sun sparc solaris osbased workstations with improved performance, capacity, and graphics, to meet the demands of todays enterpriseclass applications.
Solaris 10 is an officially supported sun distribution. Installing solaris 10 on a sun blade 2500 silver server fault. Solaris installation on sun blade 1500 oracle community. When i look on oracles compatibility page, i can see the station is able to run solaris 10 8 11. It says unable to start the xserver failed to initialise core devices sunwmouse ioctl on devmouse and failed to start xserver on display. So, solaris 11 wont work on that sun blade 1500 as they dont support this architecture anymore. This book is written for users who have experience installing workstation hardware and software. Id like to install solaris 10 available only on dvd media on a sun blade 1500 that has a cdrom reader.
Sun blade 1500 bad magic number unix and linux forums. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until. As a newbie, this is a first new problem for yall pros in here. This is a sun blade 150 which can run solaris 810, and some forms of linux without an addon video card thats unsupported, of course. During installation, system never prompt open solaris but just solaris, is it. Trying to install solaris 10 on a sunblade 100 unix. So, you are a happy owner that wants to get latest and greatest oracle solaris running on a legendary sun blade workstation with glorious double ultrasparc iii cpus and a fair 1 gb of ram. Oracle solaris built in virtualization provides a highly efficient and scalable solution that sits at the core of the platform. The sun ultra 25 workstation combines the legendary quality and reliability of sun sparcsolaris osbased workstations with improved performance, capacity, and graphics, to meet the demands of todays enterpriseclass applications. Product sun blade 1500 workstation bug id 6186802 date of workaround release 03nov2004 date of resolved release 16aug2005 impact. If you have a sun service contract, you can download the patches from. The system has been completly wiped, so i get an openboot prompt when i boot.
This allowed mixed ultrasparc and x64 architecture blades. Sun blade 2500 workstation product library documentation. I am using a sunblade 1500 that currently runs solaris 8 and i would like to install solaris 10. This is the main reason why sun still sells blade 2000, now that blade 2500 has hit the market. Thats kind of surprising since solaris 11 is modern as of this writing. Sun blade 1500 and sun blade 2500 legal notice pdf sun management center 4. In june 2006, sun announced the amd opteronbased sun blade 8000 modular blade server system. Varian patches have been downloaded and stored in my computer under varian documentation directory. The sun blade 2500 getting started guide 8175119 11 describes how to set up the operating system and use the preinstalled software applications for sun blade 2500 workstations with silver bezels. How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500. Installed open solaris 11 on sun blade 2000 then restarts with ubuntu 807559 oct 22, 2008 1.
Openbsdsparc64 runs on the 64bit sun ultrasparc machines based on the. I donwloaded the free solaris 10 and tried to install it in my sun blade 150. St3120814 not from sun, i always got this warning message. Blade 1500 red and solaris 10u8 install dvd 807559 mar 5, 2010 2. Sun ultra 1 2 5 10 30 60 blade 100 150 1500 2000 2500 enterprise 250 450 3500 t5120 t5220 sunfire v120 210 215 240 245 280r storedge d a. This usually occurs when the drive powers down with its optical drive tray open.
This workstation has 1gbyte of memory, 1 gigethernet card and one 80gbyte ata drive. The sun blade 1500 getting started guide 816756511 describes how to set up the operating. Sun blade 1500 non silver flash prom update 14068702 hardwareprom. Whenever i boot up a sun blade 1500 with a new 120gb hardrive seagate ata model. Firmware downloads and release history for oracle server. Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006 onwards in june 2006, sun announced the amd opteronbased sun blade 8000 modular blade server system. As for true workstation features check out blade 2000 sun. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris. The following year, the sun blade 6000 system was launched. The sun blade t6300 and t6320 modules run solaris and use ultrasparc t1 and. I still have a sun blade 2000 and 21 triniton display for the w3 connector to the creator3d upa graphics card. Some sun servers like blade x6270 uses lsi raid controller to manage disks. If you have a sun blade 1500 workstation with a red bezel, refer to the sun. As you may already know, oracle sun patches are now available from my oracle support mos weve uploaded over 30,000 62 digit patchids to mos, including all solaris 8, 9, and 10 patches, suncluster, and patches for over a thousand other products.
Sun blade 1500 troubleshooting card silver translations of troubleshooting card information some information in this card is included in thesun blade 1500 getting started guide, 8175129, which is available in french, german, italian, japanese, korean, spanish, swedish, simplified chinese, and traditional chinese languages. Then, i downloaded solaris 10 on oracles website and burt it on a dvd. You can also purchase anysystem hardware maintenance support is for this product, click here for support detail. This is a sun blade 150 which can run solaris 810, and some forms of linux without. For sun sparc enterprise, sun fire, sun blade, sun ultra, netra, and sun. Page 1 sun blade 1500 service, diagnostics, and troubleshooting manual sun microsystems, inc. This is a free download, sun release binary patches, updates, etc. Model, code, codename, processors, processor mhz, solaris supported. Sun blade 1500 tower ultrasparc iiii 1 ghz 0 gb 80 gb overview and full product specs on cnet. Information on accessing and using my oracle support can be found at the my oracle support welcome center for oracle customers and partners to find your download on my oracle support 1.
How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500 using. Sun microsystems sun blade 2500 getting started manual pdf. For newer os revisions, use the inbox driver provided by the os vendor. Sun blade 1500 silver workstation, oracle sun blade 1500. Sun blade 1500 silver workstations now come preinstalled with solaris 8 and solaris 9, or solaris 8 and solaris 10. Sun blade 1500 workstation documents and support resources url or telephone number pdf files for all the current sun blade 1500 workstation documents. The sun blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 sun blade x8420 or x8440 modules. Id like to try a network installation using a linux box as the install server. General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. The range replaced the earlier sun ultra workstation series. Solaris 9 404 release notes supplement for sun hardware.
Iam trying install sun solaris 8 release feb04 on sun blade 1500. The software can run on solaris 9 0803 will also run on solaris 9 904 or newer as well, they all solaris 9. Oracle solaris 11 oracle technology network oracle. Solaris 8 is the earliest supported version, though many blade s shipped with 9 installed. It looks like solaris 11 can be installed on a sun blade. He said it was working fine except for the missing hard drive. Feb 03, 2015 i took this a week or two ago, before hooking my hp9k back up. Sun blade 1500s red that use power supply units psu manufactured within a specific date code range may be vulnerable to a thermal event if the psu fails. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up. Nov 14, 2008 solaris is the only os that fully supports the blade and all its hardware.
The oracle solaris 11 os is installed on the client, pulling packages from the package repository specified by the installation instructions in the ai install service. Every sun ultra 25 workstation ships with a full suite of suns awardwinning development toolsthe. Oracle sun patches now available from my oracle support. For information about solaris 8, 9, or 10 preinstalled software, refer to table 4. The automated installer ai is used to automate the installation of the oracle solaris os on one or more sparc and x86 systems over a. For sun blade 1500 should use solaris hw 503 or later version. Be prepared to update the systems to the last released support repository update sru for oracle solaris 11. This hindrance can be effectively worked around by googling for 11129217. A friend of mine gave me an old sun blade 1500 he wasnt using. Cant open disk label package cant open boot device. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010. Oracle server product patches, updates and firmware are now available on my oracle support, from the patches and updates tab. Oracle solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Weve been designing the os for for more than two decades, always ensuring that weve engineered in features to meet the latest.
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