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  • Re: Old commercial UNIX in '26

    From Kurt Weiske@3:633/10 to All on Monday, June 15, 2026 07:10:03
    To: Piper McCorkle
    Piper McCorkle wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-

    I'm thinking of going with Solaris, if only because I have some
    hardware (a Sun Fire system in unknown condition) that I could try to restore. But I know the installation process will definitely be a pain
    in the ass. The system doesn't have an optical drive, so I'll need to install Solaris over the network. No clue how to set up the server necessary for that - hopefully I can do it on OpenIndiana!

    It sounds like you could copy the ISO to an external USB drive, then
    mount it and reference the ISO file at the openboot prompt?

    I ran Solaris 2.x back in the day, besides the odd command line
    differences (I was running Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX and Solaris in my shop)
    I seem to recall having to load everything from gcc to utils from a
    package repository online, don't know if the site exists anymore.

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