So how many people are using Solaris 9 then??

I have the 12/02 release at home on my little Ultra 1

i like it a lot!

I have Solaris 9 i86 installed on a seperate 4GB hard drive.
Boot problems with Lilo are slowing me down.
This is my first trial with Solaris.

i'm not sure what Solaris on x86 is like to be honest... as it's not it's intended architecture, i wouldn't expect it to be quite as stable as a SPARC machine. Should be pretty good nevertheless...

Also, i've never tried configuring LILO to boot solaris... what's the problem you have?? does it boot at all?

One other thing... what spec is your machine?? I'd be interested to know what the driver support is like in Solaris x86.

And I'm not sure what Solaris on Solaris is like.
The PC is a not quite stock HP. Celeron processor, i810 graphics, 256 RAM. Added Soundblaster sound card.
I installed Solaris to a spare 4GB hard drive. This boots and runs fine. However when I try the trick I used with XP preview version of loading it by itself (to be sure my main drive didn't get screwed up) but then adding it as the slave drive with the lilo map-drive function (to tell the slave drive it is the master) I get partition size errors and it doesn't want to boot normally.
I started with a basic:
other=/dev/hdxx
label=Solaris9
No go.
I have tried variations of the basic and another found on the web:
other=/dev/hdxx
label=Solaris9
loader=chain.b
unsafe
No go.
Both had the added:
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
It will be much easier to fool with the Solaris install if it can be multi-booted with my main disk which contains a couple Linux distros and a seldom used Windows 98.
It installed very nicely. I need to get it multi-booting and follow an 8139 NIC howto before I explore much more.

hmm... i can't say i've ever tried to dual-boot Solaris, so i don't think i can help you there, my friend.

I can, however, be really pedantic and say that i've never run Solaris on Solaris either.... but i have run Solaris on SPARC!

I run Solaris 9

Just got PostgreSQL 7.3.2 compiled and installed on Solaris 9 on an Ultra5. They didn't have any binary installation available for 9. I had some problems trying to compile some different options (like --with-perl) but aside from that, success.

Has anyone done any work with the Resource Manager for Solaris 9? The "whats new" documents say some pretty cool stuff about partitioning your resources, to prevent DoS problems from bringing down the whole server. Was curious if anyone is making use of it.

I have Solaris 8 for ix86. But I would wish to have Solaris 9 for ix86. Anybody willing to send me a copy?

note thats illegal!
in e2k network there are copys of Solaris 9 for x86...

but buy it! its not expensive

to just confirm... yes - that is illegal. it's really not expensive though!

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html

The above URL is the place where you can download Solaris 9 for x86 or SPARC, and as you will see, the x86 version is only $20 US!!!

Still runnin' 8.

Hmm...SPARC Solaris 9 is free again...and you don't NEED to use the stupid Sun download manager. Maybe I'll be upgrading soon.

-Goon-Kun

it's only free for single-CPU SPARC machines though, i think.

...and why don't you need to use the sun download manager?? U mean the actual software that downloads stuff for you?