Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 5/15/22 18:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 5/16/22 00:15, Chris Quayle wrote:
> > > It is a damn good machine. However it can *only* run Solaris 10 or maybe
> > > Solaris 11.3 and in both cases you need an Oracle contract. Otherwise
> > > good luck getting updates or access to the IPS repo.
> >
> > Never bothered about updates, but what is the IPS repo ?. Could we
> > have a group buy for, say a V120 and share ?. Depends on the cost I'
> > guess.
>
> The last update released for 11.3 is called
>
> 	"Oracle Solaris 11.3 Limited Support Updates (LSRU) 11.3.36.24.0"
>
> and can be found on some torrent sites.

I have 11.3 but need an Oracle contract to get much of anything done.

> For Solaris 11.4, you can just install the CBE version which has full access
> to update repositories for free.

Does not work on anything previous to a T4.  At all.  Period. Will not
install and detects unsupported hardware. The Lawnmower strikes again.


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