Root password on solaris 5.7?

[Jim Leonard]

Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
> On 6/29/06, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I think that Sun only makes available the current release of Solaris 
>> :-((((
>>
>> No, you can download ISO images for older releases; dig harder.
> 
> I am only able to find solaris 8 (x86 and sparc)...that's the most 
> vintage..
> 
> It'd be great if we have a community download from solaris 2.7 all the
> way down to SunOS 4 and below!! :-)

My question is, why?  Not all the releases are worth running.  Only the 
decent milestones are worth installing.  Solaris 2.5.1 IIRC is the last 
version to run on sparc pizza boxes (5/10/20s) and possibly earier; 
Solaris 9 is the last version to run on all 64-bit Ultras; Solaris 10 is 
very impressive from a networking and virtualization standpoint (plus 
ZFS kicks some serious ass) and is what you should be running if at all 
possible.  All other versions can hit the road for all I care (unless 
you need BSD SunOS 4.x for 1980s hardware).
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