Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) 1/01 Hardware Compatibility List

General Requirements

CPU 

Memory 

Bus 

Disk Interface 

Distribution Media 

Devices for Installing Solaris 

Intel Pentium 

Intel Pentium Pro 

Intel Pentium with MMX  

Intel Pentium II 

Intel Pentium II Xeon 

Intel Celeron 

Intel Pentium III 

Intel Pentium III Xeon 

AMD-K5 

AMD-K6 

AMD-K6-2 

AMD-K6-3 

AMD Athlon K7 

Cyrix 5x86-100GP 

Cyrix 6x86-P120+GP  

Cyrix 6x86-P150+ 

Cyrix 6x86-P166+ 

Cyrix 6x86MX-PR150 

Cyrix MII 

Minimum: 64 Mbytes 

Maximum: 32 Gbytes [IA based systems that use the Intel Pentium Pro and subsequently released Intel CPUs can address up to 32 Gbytes of physical memory. Individual processes are still limited to a maximum of 3.5 Gbytes of virtual address space however.]

ISA, 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 or DVD-ROM drive 

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

o Remote hard disk available over the network