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Sun Solaris 1.x

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edited February 2022 in Product Comments
imageSun Solaris 1.x

Solaris is a Unix based operating system created by Sun Microsystems (now purchased by Oracle in 2010). It is the successor to SunOS and was released initially in June of 1992. The OS is based off of System V Unix and its first release was known internally as SunOS 5. This OS was typically used on SPARC based processors, up until 1994 when it began to support x86 and x86-64 based machines. Versions of Solaris up until version 8 are considered abandoned, with version 9's support ending in October 2014.

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  • helloisthispizzahuthelloisthispizzahut
    How do I do this CD in PCem or 86Box?
  • DPlex64DPlex64
    @helloisthispizzahut If you mean how do you install it, you don't, this version runs only on SPARC. I think you can try running this on QEMU.
  • helloisthispizzahuthelloisthispizzahut
    I know how to use QEMU, but I want the instructions on how to do so.
  • GerninatorGerninator
    You're better off using NME. It's difficult (maybe impossible?) to get QEMU to look like a Sun Workstation.
    https://github.com/phabrics/nme
  • CelsoFCelsoF
    You can get the image of Solaris 10 for Virtualbox from Oracle for Free and it has a Java and CDE interfaces.
  • ravisseurravisseur
    successfully boots in Linux with
    qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -m 64 -cdrom Solaris_1.1.2.img -boot d -nographic -smp 1
    You can create image with and use -hda sparc_disk.qcow2 to mount it.
    qemu-img create -f qcow2 sparc_disk.qcow2 1G
    use 'format' in installation to partition and create a filesystem.

    Unfortunately Sun install CDs have partitions and installation fails since it cant access other partition. I tried something like
    qemu-system-sparc -M SS-5 -m 64 -nographic -hda sparc_disk.qcow2 -smp 1 -drive file=Solaris_1.1.2.img,format=raw,media=cdrom,readonly=on -boot d
    But didn't manage to make it work.
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