WTB: Solaris for SUN CS 6400

[Andreas Merz]

I believe that the Sun Cray Superserver 6400 runs the standard Solaris
2.4/2.5 or 2.6 OS, but i'm nor sure. Does someone out there know which
version of the OS i need. If someone has Software and Manualls left from
this machine, i'm very interested to get it.

[Dave]

Post by Andreas Merz
I believe that the Sun Cray Superserver 6400 runs the standard Solaris
2.4/2.5 or 2.6 OS, but i'm nor sure. Does someone out there know which
version of the OS i need. If someone has Software and Manualls left from
this machine, i'm very interested to get it.

I don' know about it, but you could try asking the people at

http://www.cray-cyber.org/

but I guess you already know about that site.

For those that don't, the site gives you the chance to build and execute
your own programs on a Cray supercomputer. The downside is they are old
and slow by modern standards, but I find building software on various
platforms often shows problem on one platform that are real bugs, but
just don't surface on another.

[James Wilson]

And you can also get Solaris (including these old versions) for free from
Suns web site, which is nice.

Post by Dave

Post by Andreas Merz
I believe that the Sun Cray Superserver 6400 runs the standard Solaris
2.4/2.5 or 2.6 OS, but i'm nor sure. Does someone out there know which
version of the OS i need. If someone has Software and Manualls left from
this machine, i'm very interested to get it.

I don' know about it, but you could try asking the people at
http://www.cray-cyber.org/
but I guess you already know about that site.
For those that don't, the site gives you the chance to build and execute
your own programs on a Cray supercomputer. The downside is they are old
and slow by modern standards, but I find building software on various
platforms often shows problem on one platform that are real bugs, but
just don't surface on another.

[B.M. Wright]

Post by James Wilson
And you can also get Solaris (including these old versions) for free from
Suns web site, which is nice.

Are you sure? I always thought they took the old release(s) off
when the newest Solaris came out? So the most you had access to was the
current (maybe one previous) and the development (aka: Solaris Express).
Maybe I need to look around some more or they've changed and now keep
them all online.

[Dennis Grevenstein]

Post by B.M. Wright
Are you sure? I always thought they took the old release(s) off
when the newest Solaris came out? So the most you had access to was the
current (maybe one previous) and the development (aka: Solaris Express).
Maybe I need to look around some more or they've changed and now keep
them all online.

You can still get Solaris 8 IIRC. If the CS6400 really is
a sun4d, then this might actually work.

mfg
Dennis

[B.M. Wright]

Post by Dennis Grevenstein

Post by B.M. Wright
Are you sure? I always thought they took the old release(s) off
when the newest Solaris came out? So the most you had access to was the
current (maybe one previous) and the development (aka: Solaris Express).
Maybe I need to look around some more or they've changed and now keep
them all online.

You can still get Solaris 8 IIRC. If the CS6400 really is
a sun4d, then this might actually work.

The other issues that will probably come up, if the CS6400 boots
like the E10K (which, it should, since they are very similar) is that
you need a bunch of other software running on a separate machine (the
SSP) just to boot it. I don't think that even the regular Solaris 8
distribution includes these (even as part of the OEM install) and I
don't think you can just download it from Sun (without buying it, that
is). This is a good reason why the original poster probably needs the
actual CS6400 version of Solaris. I don't know, there may even be wacky
licensing issues (i.e. hostid specific keys for parts of it) for some of
this software.