[tech] Musundo - upgrade to Solaris 11

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sat Apr 5 21:46:09 WST 2014


On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, David Adam wrote:
> I want to upgrade Musundo from the old build of OpenSolaris (snv_130) that 
> it's currently running to Solaris 11, but unfortunately this requires 
> reinstalling from scratch.

Whoops, Solaris 11 isn't supported on UltraSPARC IV+ chips, which includes 
Musundo (a SunFire V490).

I can't even convince it to boot at present, so perhaps we should be 
looking for something newer. The list price for a new T4 is something like 
$20k...

[DAA]


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