Date: Sun, 15 Mar 98 17:06:29 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #11 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 15 Mar 98 Volume 11 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: Just wondering Networking question Please HELP! Need to setup terminal as monitor for IPX Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #10 (2 msgs) Tadpole's Solaris with NCE +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:22:23 PST From: "Steven Ashbrook" Subject: Just wondering To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I just got a sparc 4/360.. and was wondering if someone could tell me if and what its upgradeable to. Also will it run solaris 2.5 ? thanks, ######################################## # Steven J. Ashbrook # # PO Box 87 festus MO. 63028 # # email-sash357@hotmail.com # ######################################## P.S. Is this newsletter emailed on a list or do i have to get it from the web site i found it on? If i can be out on a mail list, Please sign me up. [You're on the list, Steven. Welcome aboard! --ddm] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 19:24:53 -0800 (PST) From: Melody Yoon Subject: Networking question To: Dwight McKay [stuff cut] > connector on the hub is for cascading hubs together. But could it be used > for the 3/60s? OR does it depend on the hub itself? Hi Keith. If your hub has a BNC port, you should have any problems connecting your 3/60's to your hub via the BNC port. Just make sure you terminate correctly. :) Mel Melody Lynn Yoon melodyy@best.com | Graduate - '97 MSF Senior SA - Taos Mountain Software, Santa Clara, CA | NRA Member -- I do not accept commercial, unsolicited email -- http://www.best.com/~melodyy/spam.policy.html - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 19:41:02 -0800 (PST) From: Melody Yoon Subject: Please HELP! Need to setup terminal as monitor for IPX To: Dwight McKay > Hi, I recently acquired a Sun IPX (4/50), but it didn't come with a > monitor. I would like to get a Sun monitor but they are a bit outside my > price range now (I called Sun and they quoted $500 for refurbished b/w > monitor and $800 for color_, SO it seems I must use a terminal. I have a > Wyse 50 terminal which I would like to connect to my IPX. It has 2, 25-pin > female ports (one modem and one aux), my IPX has a 13W3 port and a 15-pin > female serial port, so I went to Radio Shack to get a 15-pin male to > 25-pin male connector to connect my 15-pin female poirt on the IPX to my > 25-pin female port on the Wyse, BUT he said there isn't any such > connector, so now I have no idea how to get this terminal hooked up. Can > someone please tell me what I need to do. Hi Zach. First of all, you can buy a used monitor from several used resellers. Take a look at the web page: http://www.sunhelp.com/ There is a list of sun used part resellers on that page among other useful tips/tricks. In addition, take a look at the newsgroup: misc.forsale.computers.workstation There's usually several people in there selling older Sun monitors and whatnot. Keep in mind you'll need a Country kit in addition to the monitor. (The Country kit has the keyboard/mouse) Now, to answer your question, however... I believe (taking from memory) that the IPX uses a mini-DIN 15 pin connector (or is it 9? I forget) where the port on the back is female. What you need to get is a MacPlus serial cable/modem cable that breaks out to DB25. You will also need a null mode and a Female-to-Male DB25 gender changer. This will convert the Mini-DIN to DB25 and then change the port from female to male (to accomodate the female port on the Wyse50) and turn it into a null modem. You should connect this to the AUX port on your Wyse50. Then make sure that you've targeted the AUX port and are talking at 9600,N,8,1. That should fix you. :) Mel Melody Lynn Yoon melodyy@best.com | Graduate - '97 MSF Senior SA - Taos Mountain Software, Santa Clara, CA | NRA Member -- I do not accept commercial, unsolicited email -- http://www.best.com/~melodyy/spam.policy.html - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 08:13:27 -0500 From: John Ruschmeyer Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #10 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >From: "Randy K. Wilson" >Subject: Y.A.N.U > >Monday I related the story to the guy thst turned me on to the 3/60 >deal several years ago. He made a phone call, which lead to a phone >call, which lead to .... Wednesday night I had a pickup loaded with 5 >20" hitachi colors, 3 3/60's, 2 4/110's, cables, keyboards, manuals, >and a SGI Personal Iris (but that's a different mail group). I haven't >been to sleep since. :> I can see why.. that's quite a haul! :-) >This leads me to the one question whose answer I may not find in the >archives. I could use a copy of SunOs4.1.1(u1) for the sun4 >architecture. There is a QIC-?? tape drive in one of the shoeboxes, but >since I plan one running diskless with the Linux box as a server, other >media would be fine, and even preferable. Does anyone know of a source? Silly question, but a re you really dead set on running SunOS 4.X? If not, then what about NetBSD (http://www.NetBSD.org)? Also, since you're already a Linux user, you may want to check to see if S/Linux supports the sun4 architecture. <<>> - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #10 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:55:52 -0500 (EST) > From: "Randy K. Wilson" > Subject: Y.A.N.U > > This leads me to the one question whose answer I may not find in the > archives. I could use a copy of SunOs4.1.1(u1) for the sun4 > architecture. There is a QIC-?? tape drive in one of the shoeboxes, but > since I plan one running diskless with the Linux box as a server, other > media would be fine, and even preferable. Does anyone know of a source? I think you'd be much happier with NetBSD! Note that NetBSD-1.3 doesn't run very well yet on diskless sun3's, but it may be OK on sparcs. However with a small disk for the OS and local swapping everything will be much faster anyway. I have a sun3 running NetBSD-1.3 with X11 on a 200MB drive. I've seen such small SCSI drives around now for $20-30, though they're not fast, and sometimes over valued (brand new SCSI disks are as low as ~$0.10/MB, but you can't buy <2GB!). -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 98 07:52:59 From: "Paul Khoury - ThinkPad 701CS" Subject: Tadpole's Solaris with NCE To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" I found out that I need Tadpole's custom version of Solaris with their NCE on it. I don't have the CD-ROM handy, but I do have the SCSI cables, and CD-ROM drive ready to use. Is there anyone else with a similiar machine who could make a copy of the Solaris 2.4 CD-ROM, or a lower version? Thanks, Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************