Free Solaris 10 and Sun Studio Software Media Kit

For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD media kit which includes the Solaris 10 Operating System for both SPARC and x86 platforms as well as Sun Studio 11 software.

Take this opportunity to get familiar with the most advanced operating system on the planet and the tools which enable the highest optimizations and best runtime performance on the Solaris Operating System, bar-none.

Sun Studio software provides optimizing C, C++ and Fortan compilers, visual performance tools, and high performance libraries to enhance your Solaris development environment.

To receive this offer, please fill out the following form, which includes mailing label details.

www2 . sun . de/dc/forms/reg_us_2211_391 . jsp

Doesn't look like the link is up now..... I tried now and it is not opening the link. Any idea if the offer is still alive???? Is it only for US residents or all over the globe?

Finally I was able to open the page and place the request. They do deliver it at India. I am soooo Happy... I always wanted to install Solaris in my PC. Thanks a lot Jim for posting the link.

We all owe you one :D

Cheers!
Kalayama

Any idea how long it takes for them to delivr the DVD????
I haven't recieved mine yet.:( Was just wondering... Did you recieve the DVD Jim?

May be it takes longer time for them to ship it to india????:confused:

Offer is stiil alive?? is it really free or any hidden charges exists??

Hi

I have downloaded Solaris and made the required DVD. But I have a problem on the Installation process. I have one Harddisk on my laptop of x86 arch and already have windows XP and Linux installed on it ( Fedora and VineLinux). A total of 3 operating systems already exist. I still have a free space of 10GB on my 60GB HDD. Now this free space is in extended partition.

My question is Can Solaris co-exist with other OS? If so what is the process to install ? If a separate HDD is required for this purpose, my laptop would not be sufficient, then in that case any alternative methods are possible to install like installing on 1gb USB or anything like that?

Thanks in advance.

Rgds
Jana

Hi Jana,

This is with regard to the Solaris installation with other OS. You can install the Solaris OS with other Operating Systems by leaving one partition i.e. the partition which you have mentioned without any file system. You need to format that partition with a bootable disc or by DM. Then that partition will be taken by the Solaris OS as default and will install.

Regards,

Mohammad Siraz

Hey Mohammad,
You do not need to format the partation using bootable disk. you just need to leave one of the partitions and detect that while you install - and further the solaris will look after it..

Vamsi