Was devastated when i found out solaris 11 wouldnt run on it due to drivers and cpu qualification. He said it was working fine except for the missing hard drive. I donwloaded the free solaris 10 and tried to install it in my sun blade 150. 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. During installation, system never prompt open solaris but just solaris, is it. In june 2006, sun announced the amd opteronbased sun blade 8000 modular blade server system. A solaris 11 vm assuming on x86 wont mount a sparc disk, unless perhaps if it is an efi disk with zfs. Then, i downloaded solaris 10 on oracles website and burt it on a dvd. 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. Sun blade 1500 workstation product notes silver oracle docs.
Openbsdsparc64 runs on the 64bit sun ultrasparc machines based on the. This usually occurs when the drive powers down with its optical drive tray open. Sun microsystems sun blade 2500 getting started manual pdf. As for true workstation features check out blade 2000 sun. 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. Second, it turned out, that apparently you need an active support contract with oracle to be eligible for this download. The sun blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 sun blade x8420 or x8440 modules. Jan 24, 2016 some dorqish commentary whilst i install solaris 8u7.
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. 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. Sun blade 2500 workstation product library documentation. Id like to try a network installation using a linux box as the install server. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. Mar 12, 2007 hi all, i tried installing the solaris for sun blade 1500 and after installation.
Sun blade 1500 service, diagnostics, and troubleshooting manual 8175127 sun blade 1500 getting started guide 8175129 sun blade 1500 product notes 81751. Sun has released solaris 10 cds for free usage download. Installing solaris 10 on a sun blade 2500 silver server fault. Feb 03, 2015 i took this a week or two ago, before hooking my hp9k back up. This hindrance can be effectively worked around by googling for 11129217. Installation of solaris 11 on sun fire t stack overflow. Be prepared to update the systems to the last released support repository update sru for oracle solaris 11. Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. Nov 14, 2008 solaris is the only os that fully supports the blade and all its hardware.
For information about solaris 8, 9, or 10 preinstalled software, refer to table 4. Sun blade 1500 and sun blade 2500 legal notice pdf sun management center 4. 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. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris. 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. The sun blade t6300 and t6320 modules run solaris and use ultrasparc t1 and. Hi everybody, im having big troubles in installing solaris 8 on a sun blade 150. The software can run on solaris 9 0803 will also run on solaris 9 904 or newer as well, they all solaris 9. If you have a sun blade 1500 workstation with a red bezel, refer to the sun. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up. If you have a sun service contract, you can download the patches from. The following year, the sun blade 6000 system was launched.
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. Sun, sun microsystems, the sun logo, sun blade, solaris, staroffice, ultra, java. Process netbeans opensolaris opensparc openjdk osum. 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 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.
Oracle sun patches now available from my oracle support. Oracle solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Every sun ultra 25 workstation ships with a full suite of suns awardwinning development toolsthe. How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500. Product sun blade 1500 workstation bug id 6186802 date of workaround release 03nov2004 date of resolved release 16aug2005 impact. For sun sparc enterprise, sun fire, sun blade, sun ultra, netra, and sun. Some sun servers like blade x6270 uses lsi raid controller to manage disks. Oracle solaris provides a flexible, cost efficient, cloudready solution perfect for your data center. C h a p t e r 4 troubleshooting and technical support. All the documentation ive found is very solaris specific it assumes having a solaris install server. I added a new drive with more space, installed solaris 10, java 8 jre, and oracle developer studio 12. Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006 onwards. 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. It looks like solaris 11 can be installed on a sun blade.
Solaris 9 404 release notes supplement for sun hardware. This allowed mixed ultrasparc and x64 architecture blades. It says unable to start the xserver failed to initialise core devices sunwmouse ioctl on devmouse and failed to start xserver on display. 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 system has been completly wiped, so i get an openboot prompt when i boot. Browse view for all desktops all results 358 oracle systems. 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. I am using a sunblade 1500 that currently runs solaris 8 and i would like to install solaris 10. Firmware downloads and release history for oracle server. For sun blade 1500 should use solaris hw 503 or later version. The sun blade 1500 getting started guide 816756511 describes how to set up the operating.
Oracle solaris 11 oracle technology network oracle. Sun blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by sun microsystems from 2006. Thats kind of surprising since solaris 11 is modern as of this writing. Cant open disk label package cant open boot device. 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. Model, code, codename, processors, processor mhz, solaris supported.
You can also purchase anysystem hardware maintenance support is for this product, click here for support detail. Sun blade 1500 silver flash prom update the difference between the silver and non silver versions are denoted visually by the colour of the. Sun blade 1500 getting started guide red oracle docs. Page 1 sun blade 1500 service, diagnostics, and troubleshooting manual sun microsystems, inc. Trying to install solaris 10 on a sunblade 100 unix. This is a free download, sun release binary patches, updates, etc. So, solaris 11 wont work on that sun blade 1500 as they dont support this architecture anymore. Solaris installation on sun blade 1500 oracle community. Sun blade 1500 silver workstations now come preinstalled with solaris 8 and solaris 9, or solaris 8 and solaris 10. Removing dimms dimm location and identification figure 11 1 depending upon the configuration of your workstation. Oracle solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. Sun blade 1500 non silver flash prom update 14068702 hardwareprom.
I still have a sun blade 2000 and 21 triniton display for the w3 connector to the creator3d upa graphics card. How to network install solaris 10 on a sun blade 1500 using. 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. Sun blade 1500 workstation documents and support resources url or telephone number pdf files for all the current sun blade 1500 workstation documents. The range replaced the earlier sun ultra workstation series. Varian patches have been downloaded and stored in my computer under varian documentation directory.
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. Solaris 8 is the earliest supported version, though many blade s shipped with 9 installed. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until. Iam trying install sun solaris 8 release feb04 on sun blade 1500. This workstation has 1gbyte of memory, 1 gigethernet card and one 80gbyte ata drive. Oracle solaris built in virtualization provides a highly efficient and scalable solution that sits at the core of the platform. 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. 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 bladetm 1500 workstationtechnical informationspec sheet. Weve been designing the os for for more than two decades, always ensuring that weve engineered in features to meet the latest.
For newer os revisions, use the inbox driver provided by the os vendor. This is a sun blade 150 which can run solaris 810, and some forms of linux without. 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. Solaris 10 is an officially supported sun distribution. Every sun ultra 25 workstation ships with a full suite of sun s awardwinning development toolsthe. 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. As a newbie, this is a first new problem for yall pros in here. Sun blade 1500 tower ultrasparc iiii 1 ghz 0 gb 80 gb overview and full product specs on cnet. Whenever i boot up a sun blade 1500 with a new 120gb hardrive seagate ata model. General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here.
There is no fdisk partition table on sparc disks, as they arent using bios. This is the main reason why sun still sells blade 2000, now that blade 2500 has hit the market. I took this a week or two ago, before hooking my hp9k back up. Sun blade 1500 silver workstation, oracle sun blade 1500. I tried running the binaries on a sun blade 1500 with a sparc processor and solaris 10, but i get errors like. The sun blade series is a computer workstation line based on the ultrasparc microprocessor. When i look on oracles compatibility page, i can see the station is able to run solaris 10 8 11. St3120814 not from sun, i always got this warning message.
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. I had in my it personnal box an old ide hard drive that i plugged in that sun blade. 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. Blade 1500 red and solaris 10u8 install dvd 807559 mar 5, 2010 2. Installing oracle solaris 10 on sun blade introduction. A friend of mine gave me an old sun blade 1500 he wasnt using. Are there any interesting points i need to watch for in the.
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