Hardware Compatibility List for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition)

General Requirements

CPU 

Minimum Memory 

Bus 

Disk Interface 

Distribution Media 

Devices for Installing Solaris 

Intel or compatible 486DX, 486DX2, 486SL, 486SX, 486DX4 

Intel Pentium 

Intel Pentium Pro 

Intel Celeron 

Intel Pentium II 

Intel Pentium with MMX  

Intel Pentium II Xeon 

AMD 486DX2-66 

AMD 486DX2-80 

AMD 486DX4-100 

AMD 486DX4-100 Enhanced 

AMD-K5 

AMD-K6 

AMD-K6-2 

Cyrix 486DLC-40 

Cyrix 5x86-100GP 

Cyrix 6x86-P120+GP  

Cyrix 6x86-P150+ 

Cyrix 6x86MX-PR150 

Cyrix 6x86-P166+ 

Minimum: 32 Mbytes 

Maximum: 4 Gbytes 

ISA, EISA, MCA, PCI, VLB 

 

IDE, E-IDE, SCSI 

 

CD-ROM and a single boot diskette 

Diskette drive and one of the following devices:

o Local SCSI or ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drive 

o Remote SCSI or ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drive available over the network 

o Remote hard disk available over the network