Date: Mon, 12 Jan 98 07:37:16 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #2 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 12 Jan 98 Volume 11 : Issue 2 Today's Topics: [Q] Install SUNOS on a SUN 4/110 ? Frame buffers for SS-10 parity ram RAM for SUN IPX (2 msgs) Solaris 2.3 printed doc. sets for sale Sun as DHCP client Sun DHCP clients Sun Hardware Reference Announcement Used equipment +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:49:42 +0100 (MET) From: Toerless Eckert Subject: [Q] Install SUNOS on a SUN 4/110 ? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com, Jens.Baedeker@zu.NET > i have a SUN 4/110 chasis with an external Box and some scsi disks. > > The boot prom is rev. 1.8, there is 20 MB Ram installed and the prom says > it is a sun 4/110?? What does it say when booting on the serial interface or on the graphics display ? Most likely it is a 4/110. Few people changed the motherboard in a 4/110 chassis (me for example ;-). > I have a solaris 1.1 CD and some 4.1.2 tapes. > > What are the steps to get this maschine up and running with a "fresh" > SUNOS. I only have the cd/tape medium. put the SunOS-4.1.3 CD (that should the solaris 1.1) into the CDROM drive and say: boot cdrom and the rest will start interactively. Don't try to install from tape, it's too cumbersome. > There is a linux with a cdrom and a sparc 1+ with solaris 2.5.1 available. If you don't want to run floating point applications, you should try to get a solaris-2.4 CD-ROM and install that. Solaris-2.5.1 does not support the Sun4 kernel architecture, so it's a bit difficult to install it on a 4/110 (read: impossible for you). Best regards Toerless - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 11:43:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Frisch Subject: Frame buffers for SS-10 To: Steve Simmons On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Steve Simmons wrote: > I have a nicely configured SS-10 (85MHz Ross, 96MB ram, lots of disk) > that has a cgsix frame buffer. Is there (a) a list of available > fbs that work in the 10s and their performance characteristics, and > (b) a generallly good source for them? I don't know about a list of compatible cards, but you may find that the Frame Buffer FAQ has some useful information. You can find it at: http://tarl.net/FAQ/FrameBuffer.html Hope this helps. Mike. ====================================================================== Mike Frisch Email: mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA ====================================================================== - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 13:14:58 +0000 From: MJ Hughes Subject: parity ram To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In response to the qustion about IPX memory: Any parity 30- or 72- pin RAM must be 9 chip. 3 or 5 chip "logic parity" won't work. Something to do with "the parity bit must be stored". Anyhow, im not sure if im allowed to put p classifieds up or not, but I wwant this machine to go to a "good home" etc. [My policy is this: ads by individuals are OK. Where else are you gonna find] [someone to buy that Sun 1 memory card? :-) Companys are welcome to submit ] [references to their sales matterials, such as a web site URL, but not stuff] [like sales flyers, etc. --ddm ] Anyway, I am selling my "project". Any readers in the UK interested in an elderly SPARCstation IPC? 24 Mb memory, all 9 -chip, 12*1 80-ns mb simms, 4*4 70-ns mb simms. Conner 207 mb Harddisk inside. CG3 frame buffer, 16" sun colour monitor. Keyboard, mouse, mouse mat. Floppy disk drive. 424 mb external harddisk, in proper sun enclosure. QIC-150mb tape drive in prope sun enclosure and another enclosure containing a non-functional(?) CD-ROM. most of the cables. SunOS 4.? installed. Some CAD software or other installed. Everything except the CD-ROM is definitely working. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 11:46:26 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Frisch Subject: RAM for SUN IPX To: Prevelakis Vassilis On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Prevelakis Vassilis wrote: > I have a SUN IPX at home with only 16Mb RAM (on one SIMM). I have tried > to add SIMMs from PCs (with parity) but I always end up with memory errors > after a couple of hours of use. > > So the question is whether the IPX needs special SIMMs or whether I > am missing something regarding the use of PC RAM SIMMs (with parity). Ensure you are using 72-pin TRUE parity (36-bit) RAM... I use 72-pin 16MB 60ns parity SIMMs in my IPXes with no problems. Mike. ====================================================================== Mike Frisch Email: mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA ====================================================================== - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 09:38:27 -0800 (PST) From: Jay Hennigan Subject: RAM for SUN IPX To: Prevelakis Vassilis > I have a SUN IPX at home with only 16Mb RAM (on one SIMM). I have tried > to add SIMMs from PCs (with parity) but I always end up with memory errors > after a couple of hours of use. > > So the question is whether the IPX needs special SIMMs or whether I > am missing something regarding the use of PC RAM SIMMs (with parity). True parity 16MB SIMMs work fine. The most recent ones I've purchased have 12 chips per SIMM, eight on one side and four on the other. I've seen recommendations for the tin-plated contact fingers as opposed to gold, probably to avoid dissimilar metals problems with the sockets. "EDO" RAM will NOT work. These are becoming a bit scarce in the PC market, I paid $40 per stick at a recent computer show. -- Jay Hennigan jay@west.net -- WestNet: Internet service to Santa Barbara, Ventura and the world. 805-892-2133 805-289-1000 805-578-2121 - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 09:24:45 -0800 (PST) From: rodgers@cgl.ucsf.EDU Subject: Solaris 2.3 printed doc. sets for sale To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Dear Fellow SAHers, We have two nearly complete sets of printed Sun Solaris 2.3 manuals for sale: These are in mint condition, many of them still in their original shrink-wrap bundles. Although we will consider selling them singly, we would prefer to sell them as sets. Send me email if you want a complete list of the individual documents in the sets. We are asking $150 per set. The books (weighing approx. 65 lbs. per set) can be shipped by any means specified by the buyer, who will be expected to cover shipping costs. Regards, Rick Rodgers (rodgers@maxwell.ucsf.edu) - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:33:28 -0500 From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker) Subject: Sun as DHCP client To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have been able to find lots of pointers on setting a SparcStation to run DHCP *server*; can anyone point me to info on setting up the SS to run DHCP client? assuming you're running the built-in ppp, read up on aspppd[1m] - specifically 'negotiate_address'. you're lucky to be using 2.5 and newer - these are the first versions to support dhcp. ___________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay Dear Diary: Late to work today -- internet rambler Watch stopped, thought time did too. adh@an.bradford.ma.us Was I ever embarrassed! - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:51:03 -0400 From: BRANDON WILLIAM HUME Subject: Sun DHCP clients To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > whole new task - I need to set up a couple of SparcStations (one running > Solaris 2.5 and one running Solaris 2.6) to run DHCP *clients*. Solaris 2.6 comes with some DHCP stuff... whether only suited to act as server or client, I don't know, as I haven't played with it. Even if its unsuitable, there's a set of DHCP server/client utilities at www.isc.org. (I'll have to figure this all out eventually anyways, as I'm just waiting for cable modems to get out into my area). - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:09:05 -0800 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Sun Hardware Reference Announcement To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com, chicks@chicks.net, george@intnet.net, I have come to the painful conclusion that an all-comprehensive Sun Hardware Reference is simply too much for one person with a job and other projects to complete and maintain in a reasonable manner. Furthermore, much of the information that it might contain is better covered in more specialized FAQs (CD-ROM, NVRAM, framebuffer, etc.) which are small enough that they are complete and maintained well. Hence, I am dropping support for the Sun Hardware Reference as such. What there is of it will continue to be available from my site, and anybody who wants to use it as the basis of anything is welcome to do so. However, this doesn't mean that I'm out of the business completely. Taking a clue from the maintainers of smaller FAQs, I will be concentrating on Sun-2's (and -1's, to the extent that I have any info on them), an area which is not currently covered in any other FAQ that I know of. The Sun-2 Hardware Reference is already off to a good start and hopefully will be complete within the year. --James - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 08:49:49 -0500 From: Pablo Trincavelli Subject: Used equipment To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, I was trying to find some used equipment, I mean a complete workstation. Does anybody know the best place to find them? Some advices? If someone from Argentina can help is better, because thatīs where I live :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pablo Alberto Trincavelli Banco Bisel S.A. - Dpto. de Sistemas Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina Work e-mail: pablot@bancobisel.com.ar Personal e-mail: pablot@iname.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************