General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. There were a lot difference between solaris 9 and solaris 10. Sun blade 2500 user manual solaris 10, as an operating system, on my sun blade 2500 became outdated for note that im only creating. Note this publication describes the changes made to hardware, software, and documentation for sun blade tm 2500 workstations with red bezels.
For the purpose of this example, i will be installing solaris 8 on a sun blade 150 with the following configuration. 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. Sun does not officially sponsor, approve, or endorse this site or its content. View online or download sun microsystems sun blade 2500 getting started manual, product notes. There is a download freeware for sun gcc, gdb, ddd, etc. Sun microsystems sun blade 2500 getting started manual pdf. The sun blade 2500 workstation is a robust and reliable 64bit, dual processorcapable workstation, designed and built by sun to visualize and solve complex technical problems.
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. The sun blade, introduced in october 2000, was the first system to use fireplane as the interconnect between its single or dual processors and the io subsystem, a few months ahead of. The sun blade 2500 workstation provides outstanding performance for visually demanding graphics applications through support for the sun xvr1200, sun xvr600, or sun xvr100 graphics accelerators. The sun blade, introduced in october 2000, was the first system to use fireplane as the interconnect between its single or dual processors and the io subsystem, a few months ahead of its use in the new sun fire server product line. The sun blade series is a computer workstation line based on the ultrasparc microprocessor. Sun, sun microsystems, sun ultra, sun enterprise, sun blade, and.
Learning some of the mistakes of opensolaris, we have a model that. I have no experience with sun solaris 10 os will it let me run windows applications on it. Sun blade 2500 and sunblade 2500 spare parts anysystem. Or may be even handle a load of 2500 processes on a dual cpu machine.
If you are working as a sun solaris system administrator, you know that how rapidly solaris operating system is changing from version to version. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until. As the the comments demonstrate, the sb2500 has issues reading the dvd. I have a sun sparc pc whose type is sun blade 2500 with 2gb memory. Browse view for all desktops all results 949 solaris ready 1 oracle systems 23.
Coupled with solaris 8, the sun blade 2500 provides fast performance, near continual uptime, and the security and reliability required from a mission critical. See downloading the safte firmware patch for complete instructions for sun storedge 3000 family cli 2. On peut les faire fonctionner avec les systemes d exploitation solaris. There might be the solaris 10 x86 images but im not sure you can run them on a standard computervirtual machine again if you have more infos about that, please share. The solaris 10 image contains a graphical interactive installer that will fall to text mode if your hardware is not supported by drivers on the miniroot. Solaris 10 is an officially supported sun distribution. Solaris installation on sun blade 1500 oracle community. The sun blade 2500 getting started guide 816100511 describes how to set up the operating. The oracle sun blade 2500 silver medium workstation offers considerably higher performance with more capabilities. The sun blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 sun blade x8420 or x8440 modules. Oracle solaris 10 downloads this user gave thanks to hicksd8 for this post.
Oracle server product patches, updates and firmware are now available on my oracle support, from the patches and updates tab. Installing solaris 10 on a sun blade 2500 silver server fault. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. Sun blade 2500 troubleshooting card red oracle help. Sun blade 2500 workstation product library documentation. View and download sun microsystems sun blade 2500 getting started manual online.
It has been configured previously with an ip address, hostname, dns and so forth. 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. This book is written for users who have experience installing workstation hardware and software. For solaris 11 there are several images you can download.
The sun blade 2500 workstation comes with solaris 8 hw 503 operating system preinstalled, providing the most scalable, most secure and most available operating system in its class. Sun bladetm 2500 workstation technical informationspec sheet. How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500. While i prefer pkgget to add software to the sun, there are other ways to get free software for the sun. Despite that, the blade series still brings value t. Home explore sun blade 2500 troubleshooting card red oracle help center. Also download the associated documentation listed at the bottom of the page. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. Sol 10 11 06 sparc on sun blade 2500 could not determine boot disk. The sun blade 2500 workstation comes with solaris 8 and solaris 9 operating system preinstalled, providing the most scalable, secure, and available operating system in its class. 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. The range replaced the earlier sun ultra workstation series. Pls do not attempt to install dual boot windowsunix unless you are sure what you are doing.
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. Jan 14, 2020 featuring six 64bit pci slots, builtin usb and ieee 94a firewire ports, and onboard gigabit ethernet 10100baset, the sun blade 2500 workstation also enables highthroughput connectivity to a wide range of technologyleading peripherals. Firmware downloads and release history for oracle server. Note both red and silver versions of the sun blade 2500 documentation are available at. Submit to the hcl return to previous page send feedback to the hcl team oracle solaris 11 express. Eine cdrom in einem solaris sun blade 2500 bereitstellen. Coupled with the solaris operating system, the sun blade 2500 workstation provides fast. This is a free download, sun release binary patches, updates, etc. Sun blade 2500 workstation sun blade 2500 documentation silver sun management center 3. Now, when the system restarts, it goes toi prompt an old root login of an old ubuntu installation. When i look on oracles compatibility page, i can see the station is able to run solaris 10 8 11.
The 15002500 series came in two variants, the earlier red series, and the later silver. Most of the gnu programs have been ported to the sun solaris environment. Google for solaris administrator guide ebook and you should find plenty of them. It says unable to start the xserver failed to initialise core devices sunwmouse ioctl on devmouse and failed to start xserver on display.
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. Sun blade 2500 service, diagnostics and troubleshooting manual silver pdf. Afaik sparc stations where never very common and currently you can only get sparc servers from oracle correct me if im wrong. Sun bladetm 2500 workstation technical informationspec.
In the future, when you see s10u1 solaris 10 update 1, think of these as service pack releases that add new features and fix bugs for the main solaris 10 distribution. Id like to try a network installation using a linux box as the install server. If you have a sun blade 2500 workstation with a silver bezel, refer to sun blade 2500 product notes silver, 8175121. I took this a week or two ago, before hooking my hp9k back up. This site is independently run and in no way represents sun microsystems, inc. Sun blade 2500troubleshooting cardpower smart cardsupply readerdimm dvdrom4 to 7 drivedimm0 to 3 removable media driverear or blankfan panelcpu1cpu0 hard drives hd0 backaudio hd1 frontmodule powerpci buttonconnectslot 5 bezelslot 4 front fanslot 3slot 2 speakerslot 1slot 0 pci card support nvram batterytranslations of troubleshooting card informationsome information in this card is. Every sun ultra 25 workstation ships with a full suite of suns awardwinning development toolsthe. The sun blade 2500 workstation offers worldclass performance for the most demanding computing environments.
When i look on oracles compatibility page, i can see the station is able to run solaris 10 811. Jun 09, 2014 11 is not just an updated version of 10 many things have changed in the kernel and supporting services. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we. The system has been completly wiped, so i get an openboot prompt when i boot. The blade 150 comes in three flavors small, medium, and large, and the one we. Apr 27, 2017 please follow the below oracle document to download the solaris iso images. The sun blade 2500 workstation product notes silver, 817512114, contain latebreaking information about changes to the product and to the documentation supporting the product that became known after the documentation set was published. Installed open solaris 11 on sun blade 2000 then restarts with ubuntu 807559 oct 22, 2008 1. Solaris 9 404 release notes supplement for sun hardware. Hi guys, i have a sunblade 2000 that i am trying to configure. The observation deck the sudden death and eternal life of solaris. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. Feb 03, 2015 i took this a week or two ago, before hooking my hp9k back up.
In june 2006, sun announced the amd opteronbased sun blade 8000 modular blade server system. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010. This article documents installing the 202 release of solaris 8 from cdrom. Information on accessing and using my oracle support can be found at the my oracle support welcome center for oracle customers and partners. The adapter software installer is a onestep program that allows you to install all adapter software and outofbox drivers, including both. Please follow the below oracle document to download the solaris iso images.
Sun blade 2500 troubleshooting card red oracle help center. Sun blade 2500 getting started guide red oracle help center. This book is written for users who have experience. For newer os revisions, use the inbox driver provided by the os vendor. You might want to download the sun mlib package which is. Note items in parentheses are included as part of the solaris software package.
The sun blade 2500 getting started guide 817511911 describes how to set up the operating system and use the preinstalled software applications for sun blade 2500 workstations with silver bezels. During installation, system never prompt open solaris but just solaris, is it normal. Sun blade 2500solaris operating environment and release that you are usingin a terminal window, type. Is there any way to download the iso of solaris 11. Mar 12, 2007 hi all, i tried installing the solaris for sun blade 1500 and after installation. I was given some nice old sun unix workstations, sun blade and sun blade 2000. Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006 onwards. Cd or dvd does not eject from the media tray when you press the eject button. Raptor openwindows for solaris eizo rugged solutions. By the time oracle bought sun five years later in 2010, the community.
Usual causes are either in the recording side, some dvd recording applications. The following year, the sun blade 6000 system was launched. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. These are ultrasparc machines running solaris 8 which, with regard to all questions below, is useless because the former owner could not provide me with any passwords. Some dorqish commentary whilst i install solaris 8u7. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris. Jan 14, 2020 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.