[Suns-at-Home] OS

[Brent Busby]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, jfehlinger@comcast.net wrote:

> "silvercreekvalley" wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an *original* SunOS 4.x on tape or CD for Sun 3/3x?
>
> As a matter of fact, you can download SunOS 4.1.1 for Sun3
> for free, from the Web.
>
> Here's the link:
> http://www.sun3zoo.de/sun3arc/BootTapes/Sun3/index.html
>
> There are scripts to regenerate the QIC24 tapes from the
> supplied compressed tar files, and TOCs for QIC150,
> Exabyte and CD-ROM media.
>
> I've used these downloads to run SunOS 4.1.1 on Matt Fredette's
> TME Sun 3/150 emulator, under Linux.

This brings to mind another question I've had:

Is there anywhere these days that you can get SunOS 4.1.4 on CDROM?  If 
possible, I'd like to do a fresh OS load on a Sparc 5 with an attached 
SCSI CD, on the theory that this may be less hassle than tape.

(You can do an OS load this was from the PROM, can't you?)

-- 
+ Brent A. Busby	 + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ UNIX Systems Admin	 +  banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago	 +  eventually reproduce the entire works of
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