Date: Thu, 2 Apr 98 20:53:41 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #13 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 2 Apr 98 Volume 11 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: Adding second HD for SS2 CD-ROM Driver cheap monitor wanted Freebies: Hard Copy SunOS and Interleaf Manuals (Old) Have an "extra" IPC.... Need help re-jigging, 3/260 Never mind that, but ... Openwin via Telnet SUN-Swift Adaptor Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #12 (2 msgs) Weird Monitor Problem +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 28 Mar 1998 10:17:07 -0800 From: Thuy Nguyen Subject: Adding second HD for SS2 To: Dwight McKay My SS2 HD at home is getting full. I'm already add 2nd HD to the system. I do probe-scsi and it shows the system have two HD. How can I use 2nd HD to add and run the application. Thank you in advance for you help. Thuy Nguyen thuyhn@msn.com [That's an involved question. You might do well to get a hold of a system] [management book. Two I'd recommend are: "Solaris 2.x for Managers and ] [Administrators" by Freeland, Mckay and Parkinson (My book!) and "UNIX ] [System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass and Hein. ] [The "Solaris 2.x..." book is aimed at beginners, the "UNIX..." book is ] [more advanced. --ddm ] - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:55:31 -0500 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: CD-ROM Driver To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Folks- OK, I have a weird one for you.... I've just re-installed Solaris 2.5.1 on my IPX, from CD-ROM. No problems installing it, but I can't actually _mount_ a CD-ROM and read it! The log file claims there's no driver. The hardware is OK, at least it's good enough to install from.... I can't use ADMINTOOL to add anything from the CD, since it can't read the CD, and a lengthy search of Sun resources on the 'net didn't turn up much. Can anyone tell me where I can find the required driver, and how I can install it? Thanks. -Shel [See the next message from Skel, later on... --ddm] - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:09:45 -0500 From: Adam Stouffer Subject: cheap monitor wanted To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I am looking for a low cost monitor for an old SS1+ that I picked up. It has an MG2 monochrome frame buffer with a 13W3 connector. I would prefer a color monitor as I plan to upgrade it in the future. I am only a student so it can't be expensive. Thanks. Adam - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:09:58 +0000 From: Granville Moore Subject: Freebies: Hard Copy SunOS and Interleaf Manuals (Old) To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Free to good, bad or indifferent home - hard copy manuals for versions 4.0 and 4.0.3 of SunOS and Interleaf (circa 1988). (Note *manuals only*, no software). SunOS 4.0 Manuals (no binders): SunOS Reference Manual (800-1751-10, Rev A, 9 May 1988) Part 1: Commands Part 2: System Calls Part 3: Library Functions Part 3L: Lightweight Processes Library System Overview Editing Text Files (2 off) Using Nroff and Troff (2 off) Formatting Documents Network Programming SunCore Reference Manual (2 off) Prom User's Manual (2 off) Installing the SunOS SunOS 4.0 Change Notes (2 off) Sun System Diagnostics Manual C Programmer's Guide Assembly Language Reference Programming Utilities and Libraries Floating Point Programmer's Guide Network Programming Writing Device Drivers SunView 1 Programmer's Guide SunView 1 System Programmer's Guide PixRect Reference Manual Sun CGI Reference Manual SunOS 4.03 Manual Set (2 off): SunOS 4.03 Installation Guide SunDiag User's Guide SunOS 4.03 Release Manual SunOS 4.03 Documentation Errata and Change Pages SunOS 4.03 Change Pages Interleaf Workstation Publishing Software, Sun version (in binders): Training Manual Reference Manual Part 1 (Editing) Reference Manual Part 2 (Management) Free to anyone who'll take them away (Cambridge area, UK), or pay shipping costs. E-mail me, stating which ones you want, at gvm@nemesys.com. - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:41:58 -0500 From: earl@baugh.org (Earl Baugh) Subject: Have an "extra" IPC.... To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Folks, I just obtained a Sun IPC with 24 MB of memory (for helping a friend clean out his garage...) Since I already have two Suns (a SS10 and Sparc Classic) and a Pentium running Solaris, I've got enough UNIX boxes right now. I'd like at least $100 for this, but will take the best offer I get. I posted to USENET, but figured I'd post here in case someone is looking for a box. I also have a 1 GB SCSI external drive and a copy of Solaris (2.4 or perhaps 2.5.1...) I could add in for a few additional $$'s. In advance, I don't want to bother with splitting these items up right now... Earl D. Baugh Jr. Internet : earl@baugh.org - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:17:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Saxby Subject: Need help re-jigging, 3/260 To: Dwight McKay I have just been given another 3/260 and have now (finally) been able to make one working machine from the two. The problem is that when booting in multi-user, it kicks out messages like: ifconfig: turandot: bad address and the gets as far as: linker directory cache and then it starts to have a bit of a funny and says it's had a kernel panic. Bus error: kernel panic What kind of thing does this normally mean? What files do I have to change to convince the machine to function on its own without any connection to the outside world (I can get it into single-user fine). Cheers, Gavin. ______________________________________________________________________ | "When you say it's going to happen now, | Gavin Saxby | | When exactly do you mean?" | | | | Heriot-Watt University | | 'How soon is now?' - The Smiths | Edinburgh | |____________________________________________|_________________________| - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:09:23 -0500 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: Never mind that, but ... To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Folks- Yeah, OK, so I'm not so bright ... I forgot about Solaris's dynamic re-linking of drivers for things present and absent. Once I rebooted with the "-r" option, my CD-ROM drive is present and accounted for. Thanks to whomever sent that thought (the "-r" one, not the "moron!" one) through the ether. On another subject, however ... why is my IPX's floppy drive always read-only? The disks themselves aren't, though they are PC file systems. If the clue-bird would favor me with some droppings here, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -Shel - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:02:01 -0500 From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <76701.103@compuserve.com> Subject: Openwin via Telnet To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Folks- Bear with me here, I'm not even sure I'm using the right terminology for all this stuff.... If I log on to my IPX (Solaris 2.5.1) from the console, I can command /usr/openwin/bin/openwin and get the OpenWindows GUI, run the command shell, run the admintool, etc. No problems. I can do it as root, or I can do it on my own account. In fact, I have my own (non-root) account set up to do it automatically. Works fine. If I telnet in, I can log in with my non-root account, using a character terminal. Again, no problems. However, if I telnet in using the X-Window shareware package XWin32 (for Win95), I get "access denied" types of error messages. I assume that I have some setting up to do on the IPX to enable X-type telnet logins, but I cannot find any "cookbook" reference on how to do it. So, can someone point me to (or just give me) some words-of-one-syllable instructions on the host (i.e. Solaris) end of this? Thanks. -Shel P.S. Please CC e-mail, as CompuServe's new anti-spam filters are not particularly mailing-list friendly sometimes.... - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 14:18:19 +0300 From: Vassilis Prevelakis Subject: SUN-Swift Adaptor To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, I have a spare SUN-Swift sbus card (its a fast-wide SCSI and Fast Ethernet adaptor). I tried using it with a SparcStation 1 and an IPX but the prom monitor complained and the Solaris 2.6 (when booting off the intallation cdrom) cannot use either interface. Is there a basic incomatibility between the Sun4c architecture and the new card or is there a workaround? Thanks Vassilis Prevelakis (vp@unipi.gr) University of Piraeus - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 98 13:14:37 -0800 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #12 To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" On Sat, 21 Mar 98 13:18:13 EST, Dwight McKay (The Moderator) wrote: > >Just wondering, how can you start X windows? Do you have to be root, or can any user start it up? > >[Both. :-) X can be run in a number of ways. You'll need to give us some ] >[specifics of your configuration and OS version for answer to be of more ] >[help. In brief, if your system uses xdm or CDE, X is started by the boot] >[process. Older systems and those who use a command line login have the ] >[individual user start X, usually via xinit or some other start up ] >[script or program. --ddm ] Okay, the closest I could find is xstr, but it says strings: permission denied, so I'm assuming it's because I'm not root. There is also the command openwin, but it creates a trap error, and the machine crashes. -- Paul Khoury http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Sent from my P75 Server The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.030 There are 28 Processes with 94 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 9h 58m 3s 359ms. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 98 13:16:00 -0800 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #12 To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" On Sat, 21 Mar 98 13:18:13 EST, Dwight McKay (The Moderator) wrote: >Hi, > >I have a Sparc II with a SUN monitor, the system is about 7 years old. > >Lately, the monitor screen would go black by itself. > >I checked that I have no screensavers running or any other obscure >tasks. > >After I let the system "relax" for a couple of days, the monitor would >work again BUT for a limited time, and the same problem occurs again. > >Any clues ??? > You power supply in the CRT itself might finally be giving up the ghost, so you might start looking for a new CRT. A friend had a similiar problem with a PC CRT, where he could only use it for about 5 minutes every 2 hours, then it would go blank. -- Paul Khoury http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Sent from my P75 Server The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.030 There are 28 Processes with 94 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 9h 59m 27s 132ms. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 98 12:16 GMT0 From: elmactimw@cix.compulink.co.uk (T Williams Elmac Services) Subject: Weird Monitor Problem To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In-Reply-To: <199803211822.NAA06634@tigger.net-kitchen.com> > I have a Sparc II with a SUN monitor, the system is about 7 years old. > > Lately, the monitor screen would go black by itself. > > I checked that I have no screensavers running or any other obscure > tasks. > > After I let the system "relax" for a couple of days, the monitor would > work again BUT for a limited time, and the same problem occurs again. Have had a similar problem for several months, using an IPC running 4.1.3. The problem is definitely due to the "screenblank" process, which you say you don't have running. But killing screenblank after the black-out has occurred doesn't fix it. My work-around is to ensure I don't start screenblank on login, but subsequently from a shell once the system is running. screenblank started misbehaving like this after I'd run a simple Y2000 check on the system by manually setting the calendar forward and then back again. That's probably a pointer to the problem, but I haven't had the time or expertise to delve further into it. If anyone else has a proper fix for this I'd be grateful! Tim Williams Elmac Services, UK - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************