Enterprise, sun enterprise ultra, power management, openboot, jumpstart, ultra. Enclosed within a minitower enclosure, the ultra 60. Designed to expand along with your technical computing needs as your business grows, the ultra 30 and 60 are worthy successors to the ultra 1 and 2 line respectively. Sun publishes completely the design documents for ultrasparc architecture. I have an ultra 60 workstation running solaris 10 that stops at the ok prompt. The solaris 10 sun hardware platform guide describes solaris 10 software installation information that is specific to. April 6, 2006 april 6, 2006 stany consulting, software. Setting up the preinstalled solaris 10 operating system further information on the preinstalled solaris 10 operating system can be found in the sun ultra 40 workstation getting started guide, 8193953. I have a sparcstation 20 and an ultra 5 that this might be fun to play with on. The rest of this blog entry is a demonstration of solaris 8 containers, using a sun ultra 60 workstation for the solaris 8 system and a logical domain on a sun fire t2000 for the solaris 10 system. The ultra 60 workstation has four different processor configurations.
The ultra 80 is similar to the lowercost sun ultra 60, but is somewhat larger and. This is a tour of my sun ultra 5 unix workstation from between 1998 and. Prior to the release of the solaris 10 106 os, a few sun hardware platforms were shipped with one of two temporary solaris releases called the solaris 10. What i see so far is that solaris 10 represents the beginning of the end for the ultra ii based machines. Download your favorite linux distribution at lq iso. After booting i could the banner and initializing memory. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Model 60 is configured with one processor, while model 2360 comes equipped with two processors.
These workstations support multiple highperformance graphics displays for uses such as. Note for all links to work properly, you must install the. Solaris 10 os and a complete suite of permanently licensed sun software development tools, including sun java tm studio, sun studio tm, and the java. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for. The cdrom drive in the sun ultra 60 that i recently picked up from ebay lasted long enough to get an initial install of solaris 10 installed, and then the tray refused to stay closed. The server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. I set diagswitchtrue and diaglevelmax sun microsystems ultra 80 is a computer workstation that shipped from november 1999 to 2002 its enclosure is a fairly large 445 mm 17. Type the number of the installation option you want nilor heavy. I reinstalled the os, it installed and reboot after the installation but after a system shutdown i get the ok.
It barely runs solaris 10, and wont run solaris 11. Most of these packages for solaris 8 are set up as sun packages. Sun microsystems ultra 40 setup manual pdf download. On a sun ultra5, the system returns sun4u as the platform name and on an x86x64 system, the command will return i86pc as the platform name. Page 1 sun ultra 60 service manual 901 san antonio road palo alto, ca 943034900 usa 650 9600 fax 650 96991 part no. Here are the specs sun ultra 60 dual 450mhz, 2gb, 2 x 36gb scssi hdd, cd, kb mse sun solaris ultra 60 workstation for sale forums. Sun ultra 3 mobile workstation 15 ultrasparc iii solaris 10 1 gb ram 60 gb hdd series sign in to comment be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.
Ultra 60 boot hang with timeout waiting for arprarp. The sun ultra 60 was the first pciequipped dualprocessor workstation produced by sun microsystems. After trying to like solaris 8 and finding it too old, and trying to like solaris 11 and finding it too enterprisey enterpriseware, and unsuccessfully trying to boot linux plenty of times, i am going to install freebsd 10. Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments where price. The sun microsystems ultra 80 is a computer workstation that shipped from november 1999 to. Solaris9 install fails on sun ultra 60 techrepublic. Sun makes the most popular commercial unix computers and their new models use the ultrasparc cpus which are bigendian and 64 bits. A customer of mine is still using solaris 8, now i have a product which requires testing against this os, however looking at oracle, they merely provide 10 and 11. Sun has an entrylevel computer available called the ultra 5. Although it shipped with solaris 7, the ultra 60 will run later versions of solaris up to 10, as well as linux citation needed and freebsd. Find sun microsystems software downloads at cnet, the most comprehensive source for safe, trusted, and spywarefree downloads on the web.
In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Cannot install sun solaris 10 on ultra 10 the unix and. Ultra 5 was coming in a pizza case, while ultra 10 is a mini tower. Sun ultra 5 unix workstation running solaris 8 youtube. Unlike the earlier ultra 1, 2 and 5, it is a large tower, resembling a larger version of the sun ultra 10. As a novice unix user ive used it only for apps with a dash of line command thrown in what are peoples recommendationsis it a good idea or should i try reinstall solaris. Does the ultra 60 serial port behave differently from other sun workstations i have tried the same setup on an ultra 10 and ultra 30 without problems. Yeah, the solaris 10 install dvdrom boots just fine and installs solaris 10 with no issues at all tpo the scsi disk. Find sun microsystems software downloads at cnet download. It was initially the lowend offering in the professional tier of products, replacing the sun ultra 1, positioned above the ultra 10 and below the ultra 60. Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation.
Hi all, i baught a sun ultra 60 450 mhz 2048 mb memory, cdrom drive and 18 gb harddisk. Solaris 9 install fails on sun ultra 60 by mspatel 16 years ago i am trying to install solaris 9 on sun ultr 60 with obp 3. The ultra 60 was launched in november 1997 and shipped with solaris 7. My laptop doesnt have serial port, therefore, i use serialusb converter. Solaris 10 is now available and has some great improvements in speed and particularly the desktop, see the window managers and screenshots pages for more details. The sun ultra 5 was a sparc based machine designed to run a unix based operating system called solaris.
Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by top. In verbose mode, it also reports information of banner name, model, cpusystem frequencies, address range and bank numbers for each module. All sparc trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of sparc international. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. Desktop this addon supported the older sun ultra workstations, such as ultra 30, ultra 60, ultra 80, sun blade 150, sun blade, and sun blade 2000.
Running the gnome terminal costs 18% processor utilization. I do not have any experience whatsoever with solaris unix. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we. I have two sun ultra 5 10 workstations processor is sparc iii 440 and ram is 512 but without hard disk and cdrom so can i use seagate 40gb and sony dvd writer which is presented in windows pc. Find answers to seria console on ultra 60 solaris from the expert community at experts exchange. I chose those two only because they were available to me. Ive been using solaris 10 on an ultra 60 and an ultra 2 for a couple of weeks. Sun has released solaris 10 cds for free usage download. Sep 12, 2007 solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download. The ultra 60 can not run microsoft windows directly, although an internal pci card sunpci ii pro and similar from sun could be fitted to allow the use of windows. Solaris 10 operating system 1106 sun developer software enterprise edition.
This download contains the core sun management center 4. The mysap business suite and sap netweaver for x64 sun solaris 10 operating system are available now. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. Linux on a sun ultra 60 the solaris installation is corrupt and im thinking about installing linux. Nvram replaced in sun ultra 60, but no longer booting. Ultra 60 boot hang with timeout waiting for arprarp packet cndcadams isitmanagement 28 may 06 20. The ultra 60 has the maximum hardware configuration 2x450mhz, 2g ram. The ultra 60 desktop workstation is a multiprocessor device that uses the family of ultrasparc processors. Sun ultra 5 unix workstation running solaris 8 duration. Sun describes jds as a major component of solaris 10. When i first joined the desktop software group, i had to do builds on a sparcstation 2 that took over 24 hours, and our current ultra 60 build machines for the solaris 10. Solaris 10 includes sun s java desktop system jds, which is based on gnome and comes with a large set of applications, including staroffice, sun s office suite. Browse view for all desktops all results 949 solaris ready 1 oracle systems 23.
I wanted to know how to be able to run it as a normal window. Selling sun ultra workstation, in perfect working condition. It supports highperformance processing and highperformance graphics. I even tried to power off the machine and waited for some time and then. I cant seem to get the system to boot past the initial memory check. Apr 21, 2005 moreover, sun has opted to make solaris 10 available for free download and, with claims to be able to run linux applications natively on the new os, is clearly making a play for the corporate open. To make a worthwhile installation you need to download the companion cd as well as the 3 installation isos, this is also a free download. Prior to the release of the solaris 10 106 os, a few sun hardware platforms were shipped with one of two temporary solaris releases called the solaris 10 305 hw1 and hw2 release. All sparc trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or. Submit to the hcl return to previous page send feedback to the hcl team oracle solaris 11 express. Models 60 and 2360 that use the 360 mhz processor with 4 mb of level 2 cache.
I picked up a replacement used dvd drive from it came with free plastic ducks. Systems management release hub sun management center. It just seems that open boot is not pointed at the disk correctly somehow. The latest update of the solaris os helps customers alleviate common enterprise problems such as virtualization, resource management, and system performance. There is a download freeware for sun gcc, gdb, ddd, etc. I just was given an ultra 60 that im trying to get started so that i can reload the system with solaris 10. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010.
View and download sun microsystems sun ultra 20 getting started manual online. Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation cds. Sun microsystems sun ultra 20 getting started manual pdf. For example, to check for sun platforms that support the solaris 10 environment, use the command uname m. It also provides the following addons for these older, legacy sparc architecture systems. If i power on the u60 following messages are displayed. Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation cd. Sun solaris ultra 60 workstation for sale redflagdeals. Requirements and preparation for installing the solaris 10. The sun ultra 30 was one of the first pciequipped workstations produced by sun microsystems. It also reports the system type and any empty memory sockets. Jun 09, 20 in this video we look at the options for install oracle solaris 11 on the intel platform.
It is capable of handling most modern desktop needs quite easily despite being a somewhat older machine, and can use multiple graphics cards easily. I am deciding whether to linux or solaris 9 on sun sparc ultra 60 3d. Sun ultra 60 2300 mt ultrasparc ii 300 mhz 512 mb 4 gb overview and full product specs on cnet. How to get in bios settings of sun ultra 5 workstation afterdawn.
Currently, due to oversize sun monitor, i decided to take it off as well as the keyboard and begin to use serial console. Moreover, sun has opted to make solaris 10 available for free download and, with claims to be able to run linux applications natively on the new. Hello guys, i am seeing the amber light is on on my sun ultra 60, 220r. I was not able to login, so manually i checked the machine was in hung state. Ultra 5 10 was one of the first mainstream sun systems to support ide there were others at around the same time. Oracle sun ultra 60 workstation, sun ultra 60 desktops. Islanddrawis a registered trademark of island graphics corporation.
Yes, the problem may be lack of software, i agree well, after you. May 30, 2007 the sun ultra 60 was the first pciequipped dualprocessor workstation produced by sun microsystems. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until. The ultra 60 is a fairly large and heavy computer workstation in a tower enclosure from sun microsystems. Hcl detail entry for solaris 10 0305 sun microsystems, ultra 60.
Feb 08, 2012 solaris 10 on a sun blade 100 m3lang3. With the minitower system enclosure, sun ultra 60 workstation provides all the modular. It has 256mb of memory and a 360mhz ultra iii sparc processor. It is capable of handling most modern desktop needs quite easily despite being a somewhat older machine, and can use multiple graphics. After looking at other computers available, i determined that a computer from sun microsystems would be a good addition. The sun ultra 25 workstation combines the legendary quality and reliability of sun sparc solaris osbased workstations with improved performance, capacity, and.
With the live dvd we can both boot up and text solaris as well as running the graphical installer. Ran boot r at start up, the system found the hard drive but after another shutdown it stops at ok again. I placed this cd into the ultra 80 and booted off the cdrom and trying to install solaris 9 os on sun ultra 80 download your favorite linux distribution at lq iso. Because ultra 5 and ultra 10 share the same motherboard. The problem is the computer does boot cd drive at turn on. The dual processor workstation ultra 40 with opteron cpus as well as ultra 45 with ultrasparciii cpus hit the market now. Gcc missing from solaris 11, and server already deployed no access to internet 2.