Date: Sat, 28 Feb 98 17:05:57 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #9 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 28 Feb 98 Volume 11 : Issue 9 Today's Topics: Ciprico Rimfire RF-3510 Great...New Sun386i Software Archive Location... HELP !!! Setup printer HP-IIP for Sparc-LX New user Setting-up New Shoebox Sony GDM-1950 etc. Sun on PC monitor? SunOS install on Sparc 5 Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #8 (3 msgs) to the moderator Used sun sales ? +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:47:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Alexios Chouchoulas Subject: Ciprico Rimfire RF-3510 To: Suns at Home Greetings to everyone. I've recently acquired a couple of 3/160s with loads of VME boards and quite a few disks and I'm trying to get them to work as part of my bedroom LAN. :-) I'm doing fine, so far, thanks to all the info on Sun hardware and software that's lying about. I'm having trouble with my second SCSI controller, though, a Ciprico RF-3510 (plugged into a Dawn VME adaptor). Does anyone have the jumper settings for this board? I'd love to be able to use it, but I can't find any information on its setup whatsoever. Thanks, Alexios -------------------------- ,o88,o888o,,o888o. -------------------------------- Alexios Chouchoulas '88 ,88' ,88' http://www.vennea.demon.co.uk The Unpronounceable One ,o88oooo88ooooo88oo, alexios@vennea.demon.co.uk - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:45:47 -0600 From: Mark Wileniec Subject: Great...New Sun386i Software Archive Location... To: Duane Joseph Cady On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 10:18:31AM -0500, Duane Joseph Cady wrote: > > > Great -- glad to see there are still some 386i'ers out there still. > > Im using mine as an X terminal mostly. Im running X11R5, but need the > capabilities of R6. > > Is there an ftp site somewhere where I can pick up X11R6 for the 386i ? As some one already replied, there is sun386i.mono.org (anonymous ftp to /pub/sun386i/software). However, I have been setting up another Sun386i archive for machines here at the office. (We have 2 roadrunners here.) My primary purpose is to have a single archive of software packages (mostly binary) which all work at the same OS and X11 level (in this case 4.0.2 and Release 6 respectively). I am currently building quite a few of the apps not included in other sites (either as a package or as X11R6 workable). This archive also has copies of packages from other sites simply for local backup purposes. (With links to the original site.) SO, the X11R6 package is also here. Currently, it is WWW only. (I need a standalone 'ls' executable for the anonymous FTP - haven't found it here yet - anoyone got one?) If you want to check it out: http://sun386i.qcc.sk.ca Regards. -- Name: Mark J. Wileniec Organization: QCC Communications Corporation E-mail: markw@qcc.sk.ca WWW: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~markw -- Any opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer. -- - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:46:06 -0600 From: "Thuy Nguyen" Subject: HELP !!! Setup printer HP-IIP for Sparc-LX To: Hello, I'm running Solaris 2.5 on my Sparc-LX, and set up local HP Lajerjet IIP = for the machine. But I'm having a problem, the printer HP-LJ IIP with = Pacific Page Postscrip Cartridge is not working. It is working great = with PC. Here is my following configuration: Printer Name: lj2p Description: lj4ps Printer Port: /dev/bpp0 Printer Type: Postscript File Contents: Postscript Any Clue Everyone. Please help !!! Thuy thuyhn@msn.com - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 98 22:59:19 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: New user To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" Hi, my name is Paul Khoury, and though I'm usually an OS/2-only user, I have always loved using UNIX (my next favorite OS), and just aquired a Tadpole SPARCbook 3GX for a very reasonable price. The only problem is that the previous owner doesn't know the password, and I can't afford to buy a new copy of Solaris 2.x. Does anyone know where I can obtain Solaris inexpensively, or if OpenBSD or S/Linux works on this particular machine? It has 64MB of RAM, 1.2GB SCSI-2 HD, 10.4" TFT LCD, other ports, and a Fujitsu micro SPARC II 110MHz. Regards, -- Paul Khoury http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (the above url only works when the server is running) Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4 The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 25 Processes with 89 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 6h 8m 41s 625ms. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:03:27 -0800 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Setting-up New Shoebox To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >From: "Richard A. Cini" >Subject: Setting-up New Shoebox > > I just got a non-Sun shoebox for my 3/50. It has a 60mb tape drive and a >330mb hard drive with no OS. > First off, what is the best OS for this machine? Second, what's the best >way to get the system on the HD? Do I need to temporarily need to hook-up a >CD to it? OpenBSD and NetBSD may support it. The last version of SunOS for it was 4.1.1_U1. There are a lot of wars over what is best. :/ Anyway, while it is said that some of the very last Sun-3's build had the ability to boot from CD-ROM, the normal way of installing a system is from tape, typically the QIC-24 60M variety. I don't have 4.1.1_U1, but I do have 4.1.1, and it works fine. I can make tapes for the cost of postage. Alternatively, there is an ftp site (in Germany?) which has the files for 4.1.1_U1, but that doesn't do you much good unless you can write them to a tape that the Sun drive can read. Unfortunately I don't remember the address, but somebody on comp.sys.sun.hardware should be able to tell you if you post there. --James James W. Birdsall http://www.picarefy.com/~jwbirdsa/ jwbirdsa@picarefy.com "For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlin Get the Sun-2 Hardware Reference from ftp.picarefy.com:/pub/Sun-Hardware-Ref Sun-2 Hardware Reference Web Page: http://sun-www.picarefy.com/ - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:06:07 +0200 From: Samuli Niiranen Subject: Sony GDM-1950 etc. To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I recently purchased a used sparcstation 4 and am now searching for a compatible monitor. I' ve found a couple promising ones : Sony GDM-1950, Sony GDM-1901-12 and SGI CM2073A. Anyone used these with Sun workstations ? - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:31:27 +0000 From: Timo Geusch Subject: Sun on PC monitor? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Listers, as I dare to be different - is it possible to use a PC (multisync) monitor with a Sparc CG6 framebuffer? The monitor is definitely capable of displaying the different modes the frame buffer can provide, but where do I get a 13W3->15 pin VGA adapter? TIA, Timo -- Timo Geusch UNIX/NT System programmer & JAVA wizzard-in-training 'I ask for so little ... and boy, do I get it' Dilbert - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 98 12:19:52 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: SunOS install on Sparc 5 To: william.salmon@cna.com > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:36:35 -0600 > From: william.salmon@cna.com > > What is the trick to installing SunOS (any version) on a Sparc 5/i5? > ... I get the error "memory address not aligned" on either of > my Sparc 5's. I have used different versions of SunOS (4.1.1, 4.1.3) I don't think any SunOS 4.x will run on a Sparc 5 -- you need SunOS 5.x (the OS component of Solaris 2.x). - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:10:44 -0800 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #8 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >From: Ryan Stapleton >Subject: Sun 3/80 Questions > >ok another question, everytime I boot that 3/80 it says its >clock gained days, I am going to assume it needs a new nvram? >where can I get this? How hard is it to install? Actually, that means that the clock is still working. If you shut down a SunOS system and leave it off for a few days, it will complain like that. I guess the assumption was that systems would be on virtually all the time and most reboots would be warm, or at least within a few hours of the last shutdown, and hence if the time changed more than that, it might be a problem with the clock. >One more little group. Can sunos 4.1.1 with openview run with me >being able to display stuff to it from my linux screen, kinda like its >own OS + Xterm? Thanks. Yes, but it's X11R3 or R4 or thereabouts, and has some quirks. If you try to run Netscape on it, both Netscape and the openwin server process will crash before Netscape even manages to get a window up. It's very disturbing to have your display just evaporate... --James James W. Birdsall http://www.picarefy.com/~jwbirdsa/ jwbirdsa@picarefy.com "For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlin Get the Sun-2 Hardware Reference from ftp.picarefy.com:/pub/Sun-Hardware-Ref Sun-2 Hardware Reference Web Page: http://sun-www.picarefy.com/ - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:11:59 -0800 (PST) From: Edward Mitchell Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #8 To: Dwight McKay Sun PPP... Most of the PPP info in the digest seems to revolve around making a machine a PPP server..that is all well and good, but all I want to do is make my homely Sparc 1 a PPP client, via my local ISP, so that when I decide to slack off and telecommute, I can establish a decent connection, preferably without a whole bunch of hassle....anyone?(sought FAQ, but everything seems oriented around PPP servers, not clients). Maybe I'm missing something *really* simple? -Ed - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:45:52 -0800 (PST) From: Kwoody Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #8 To: "Dwight McKay@mail.citytel.net (The Moderator)" > Now for the uses off the systems I've been thinking off using the 3/60 > who's got 24 MB of ram as a proxy server in my network and the 3/80 who's > got 8 Mb off ram as a workstation maybe I'll add some ram to that box if > I find it to slow to work on.Now my question is the 3/60 powerfull enough > to run as a proxy server ? Or can I cluster the three systems to try my > hand at paralell computing ? I dont know alot bout this stuff but I would think it would depend on what kind of a connection you want to put on your 3/60. From what I gather you dont need alot of computing power to run proxy. I have 2 3/60's a 95 box and a 486/66 running FreeBSD. The FBSD machine is configured as a gateway (proxy) for this motley little network with one 33.6 modem and it works fine. Ive acutally been ftping stuff on both suns, running netscape on the 95 box along with netscape under X on the FBSD machine and it *really* starts to bottle neck on the modem but it worked flawlessly. Really with that much ram I would think that the 3/60 would be ok. Keith kwoody@citytel.net - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:06:41 -0800 From: Barbara Yates Subject: to the moderator To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, I found out about this email list from Robert Reed. I have a home-based business and have a Sparc 5 which I need help with. I'm looking to contract with someone for as-needed (by the hour billing) sys admin support. I wonder if it is possible to post this kind of query to the list? In addition, I'd be grateful to be added to the list for the increase of my knowledge about the care and feeding of the Sun machine. Thanks for your time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Barbara Yates - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:32:54 +0100 (MET) From: Toerless Eckert Subject: Used sun sales ? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi I was wondering if someone could tell me if a used Sun-4/3x0 motherboard is still of any value. I've got one spare and i am now wondering where i could sell it. best regards Toerless Eckert - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************