I am a little unclear as to the new licensing restrictions around Solaris 11. It is included on this site in an effort to preserve historical information only.

This page may contain outdated information and/or broken links. I’m also assuming the reader is familiar with Solaris 10 if you feel some parts need clarification, or if I’ve skipped over something you’d particularly like covered, feel free to let me know! There is far too much that is new for me to cover everything, so I’ll be adding to this article and updating this site as I go through it. This article is really just intended as a walk-through of my first few weeks using Solaris 11 - a 'kick of the tyres', so to speak. If people are downloading the sparc version it will never work since that is a totally different processor architecture.I’ve finally had the chance to devote some time to experimenting with some of the new features in Solaris 11. Having entered all of the command, it shows that I am running a 64 bit version of solaris. In the preceding example, amd64 indicates that the system has 64–bit Solaris capabilities enabled.' You can also use the isalist command to determine whether an x86 based system is running in 32–bit or 64–bit mode.Īmd64 pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86 The isainfo command output from an x86 based system that is running the 64–bit Solaris Operating System is displayed as follows: The output from an x86 based system that is running the 32–bit Solaris Operating System is displayed as follows: Use the isainfo -b command to display the number of bits supported by native applications on the running system. This output means that this system can support both 64–bit and 32–bit applications.

'Use the isainfo -v command to determine if an x86 based system is capable of running a 32–bit kernel.įpu tsc cx8 cmov mmx ammx a3dnow a3dnowx fxsr sse sse2 This output means that this system can support 64–bit applications.' ' The isainfo command output for an x86 based system that is running the 64-bit kernel is displayed as follows: No, you have to download the x86 distribution, that is both for AMD64 and 32 bit, and it recognizes what kernel it has to install, either 32 or 64.

Oracle Solaris 11 X86 Iso