Date: Thu, 9 Jul 98 19:26:08 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #23 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 9 Jul 98 Volume 11 : Issue 23 Today's Topics: 386i OS installations problems (again!) bootable CDR image equiv to STOP-A from a wyse terminal? (2 msgs) Good results with Lexmark printer IPX failing POST. NVRAM info from i386/250 to i386/150? +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:44:55 +0000 From: "David Cantrell" Subject: 386i OS installations problems (again!) To: sun-386i@itc.yorku.ca Thanks to everyone who suggested I replace the NVRAM - that has solved _some_ of my problems. The machine now remebers the time and boots reliably off the hard disk. Oh, and I can definitely confirm that Dallas Semiconductor's DS1642-120 chip works. However, my OS installation woes have _not_ gone away. Neither has the CPU hardware failure reported by the diagnostic disk. The machine boots just fine off the app-01 floppy, and, as before, asks for the second disk. I insert that and the floppy drive light just keeps on flashing, with no changes on the screen - I got fed up after an hour last night and went back to playing Terminal Velocity on my PC instead ;-) Could it be a damaged floppy drive that is causing this? Would an ordinary PC 3.5" drive work? -- David Cantrell, Senior Developer, Wirestation http://www.wirestation.co.uk - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:33:50 -0400 (EDT) From: sah@security.army.pentagon.mil Subject: bootable CDR image To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Hi I was wondering what was involved in creating a bootable CD for sparcs. I'd like to burn the RedHat 5.1 distribution on a cd (from a i386 running RH5.1) using cdwrite and mkisofs. Is this possible? Has anyone else tried to make an install this way? Has anyone tried burning and using other images? Such as OpenBSD or NetBSD? I'm not sure if a sparc needs different parameters when booting from a cd. And I'd rather not waste the cd. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:49:51 +0100 (BST) From: Lauren Child (CM05-1) Subject: equiv to STOP-A from a wyse terminal? To: db_computers@pobox.com David Barber writes: > HELP! > > Is there a way to perform the equivalent to a "STOP-A" on a headless > Sun386i? (or hopefully, any early Sun box) I'm sure there must be some key > combo out there that will allow me to drop into monitor mode from a dumb > tube! (wyse 50 in this case) > Hitting break on my wyse 50 connected to a 3/60 seems to do the trick. I dont know id its a programmable key or not though (and my 3/60 is playing up like nobodys business so dont expect usual results :-) TTFN Lauren lkchild@pine.shu.ac.uk -- Lauren Child, Student - Sheffield Hallam Uni. BSc IT -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCC/IT d- s+: a21 C++++ UL+++ US++++ UH+ P+ L++ E--- W+ N++ o? K+ w--->? !O M-- V-- PS+ PE Y+ !PGP t+ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+ DI(+) D- G++ e*(+)>++++ h(-)>++ r x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:20:07 -0400 From: "David Barber" Subject: equiv to STOP-A from a wyse terminal? To: "sun-386i" , HELP! Is there a way to perform the equivalent to a "STOP-A" on a headless Sun386i? (or hopefully, any early Sun box) I'm sure there must be some key combo out there that will allow me to drop into monitor mode from a dumb tube! (wyse 50 in this case) Thanks David david_barber@pobox.com - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 22:13:47 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Good results with Lexmark printer To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I recently purchased a Lexmark 5700 color inkjet printer and Lexmark's Virtual Jetprinter software (which uses the Sparc as a PostScript interpreter to drive the inkjet printer). Installation was a breeze (a script walks you thru the pkgadd process and queue setup) and everything worked out of the box. I paid US$330 for the printer and software, which I think is a decent price for a color postscript printer... Info on the software is at: http://www.lexmark.com/partners/sun/virtual_jp.html -Jeff - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 22:59:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Furman Subject: IPX failing POST. To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I just bought a IPX from a co-worker at work. He didn't know if it worked, so i said i'd give it a spin. It goes through the POST. The LED's on the keyboard go blinky blinky... then they stop with Scroll lock and Num Lock lit. When the display comes up, it says "Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board" Right after Initializing memory, it hangs, no more. Sometimes the screen goes blank, sometimes it doesn't. i can abort the memory check and go into the monitor and change settings and stuff, but any attempt at booting fails. Is this a memory problem? or is something really wrong with it? BootProm revision is 2.9 if that means anything... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Furman KD6OCS PC Support/WWW Development/Network Administration Obsolete Computer Systems Dedicated to keeping obsolete Systems ALIVE! regor@ocs.net PCS Phone: +1 408 799 0790 http://www.ocs.net/ Pager: +1 800 418 5610 - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:16:36 -0400 From: "David Barber" Subject: NVRAM info from i386/250 to i386/150? To: "Suns at Home" Good morning SAH's I've got a 386i/150 with a cleared NVRAM (not booting) and a working 386i/250. Does anyone know if I can dd the contents from the 250 to the 150? (after coming up via diag mode on the 150, then boot from the fd(), then get into single user mode) The 150 is in the state where it will boot, check the filesystems, complain that it can't remap the keyboard, issue a DATE display, then reboot! (btw, it's a headless machine) I've read the FAQ to find that I need to use "dd if=/dev/eeprom of=nvram.dump count=4" to get the contents to a file, but can I do something similar to drop the contents to a diskette? I'm reasonably familiar with Solaris, but I'd be guessing for a long time to get it to work under SunOS4! Thanks in advance! David Barber david_barber@pobox.com - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************