Date: Wed, 3 Mar 99 18:30:13 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #7 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Wed, 3 Mar 99 Volume 12 : Issue 7 Today's Topics: Can't boot 5/98 SPARC Solaris CD (2 msgs) FS: Solaris 2.6 Workstation and Server software Need help with Sun Sparcstation IPX SunOS for 3/110, 3/60 and 3/260... Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #6 (3 msgs) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:58:51 -0600 (CST) From: John Petty d-4420 (504)257-1925 Subject: Can't boot 5/98 SPARC Solaris CD To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Jason, I've got 2 Toshiba CD-ROMs that work just fine. I have a 2x on the 486 running Solaris 2.4 and a 6x on the Sparc-2. The only problem was in trying to load Solaris 2.5.1 on the Sparc-2. Apparently 6x is too fast since it gave me error messages about the scsi bus/device being too fast and it tried to slow it down - unsuccessfully. Solaris 2.6 and 7 (2.7) work just fine with it. I suppose you've already doudle-checked your device names and bootpath? The default scsi id of the CD is id-6 and the boot disk is expected at id-3. I had tried installing to a boot drive on id-2 and got frustration instead. I changed the boot harddrive to id-3 and all went real smooth. I think id 1 and 2 are expected to be tape drives but I'm not sure. Of course, we're supposed to be able to use *any* legit scsi id we want to ... right? That hasn't been my experiance. Just my own humble mumbles, John E. Petty ----- Begin Included Message ----- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:08:08 -0500 From: jasons Subject: HELP To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a sparcstation 1 at home, I have installed my cdrom drive and my hard drive. Now, how do I install solaris 7? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Jason Schaller ----- End Included Message ----- - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:30:11 +1100 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: Can't boot 5/98 SPARC Solaris CD To: Dwight McKay > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:52:15 -0500 > From: Ray Pfaff > Subject: Can't boot 5/98 SPARC Solaris CD > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Awhile back I bought the 5/98 Solaris 2.6 SPARC Platform from Sun and > I've been trying to install it on a Sparc IPC running SunOS 4.1.3. > When I try to boot the CD at the boot prompt, I get: > root on sd0a fstype 4.2 > not executable > boot failed > I called Sun tech support and they originally told me that this was > because I was using a Toshiba CD-ROM drive. I borrowed a Sun 2X > CD-ROM drive and got the same result. My suspicion is that my ROMs > are too old (running ROM rev. 1.6) Anyone have a definitive answer on > what causes this? They would tell you that since Sun preferred Sony CD-ROM drives over Toshiba's. 8-) Presuming the problem is related to the CD-ROM drive... If it is, it's most-likely a SCSI termination issue. Older Sparcstations are notoriously bad with external CD-ROM drives, presumably because the SCSI signal tolerances are so much tighter with CD-ROM drives than for hard drives. The solution that has worked for me quite a few times in the past has been to use the shortest (and the fattest, so it really does have all the ground wires present) SCSI cable, *and* use an active terminator on the end of the SCSI bus. There is no reason why the IPC should not be able to boot successfully from the CD-ROM since even Solaris [2.]7 still supports (afaik) all the sun-4c series machines. Regards, Craig. -- Craig Dewick. Send email to "cdewick@lios.apana.org.au" Point a web browser at 'http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/sun_shack.html' to access my archive of Sun information and links to other places. For info about Sun Ripened Kernels, go to "http://www.sunrk.com.au" - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:35:31 -0800 From: "Scott M. Hinnrichs" Subject: FS: Solaris 2.6 Workstation and Server software To: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) , Solaris 2.6 server and Solaris 2.6 Workstation software packages for sale due to a project cancellation. Server software opened, but unused. Workstation package unopened. Make best offer to: smh@netserv.com Scott - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:20:18 -0500 (EST) From: Zachary Uram Subject: Need help with Sun Sparcstation IPX To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a Sun Sparcstation IPX. It has 32 megs RAM, 300 meg HD (I think), ethernet card/transceiver (not much help in my ethernet-less apartment!), and floppy drive. The hard disk is blank. So I need to know how I can get an OS on it (Solaris 2.x, Sparc Linux, Netbsd, whatever)? This query brings up the related issues of. What kind of CD-ROM will work with this? Once I get it what do I need to install it? (drivers? info already in EPROM?) I doubt it will be Plug-n-Play. Unix is great but tougher to install hardware. Also I don't really need a fast CD-ROM so does anyone know where I can get a used one in good condition CHEAP? I also would like to run ppp and stuff so I need a modem. What kind of modem do I need? What do I need (drivers) to get the modem working? The back of the IPX had 25-pin _______ type port. Someone told me I need a Y-shaped connector (_______) which plusg into the 25-pin and yields two serial connections so modem would plug into one of these? if this is so what is this part called and where can I get one cheap? *Another* issue is upgrading to a larger hard dis,. I believe the current disk is SCSI, so what type of SCSI disk do I need and what do I need to install it? Again I am looking for something used/refurbished and cheap. Even 500meg-1gig would be adequate. Please email me directly also if you reply to this on newsgroup as well. I was told I could use the other end of the Y-connector to attach a serial printer in the future. My long term plans for this machine is to use it as my 'router' for a private network and it would be a 'proxy server'. I would get 1 real static IP someway (cable modem, ADSL? whatever is cheapest) and then when this is set up I would assign internal IPS to my various machines (a new Pentium system I hope to purchase in upcoming months), an XT, 286 and Wyse terminal. So I could access these machines from the 'outside' (telnet in etc., run web server) by using my one IP and this IPX as the 'router'. Is this what they mean by 'IP Masquerading'. I don't know what hardware/software I will need to do this so any help in that area would also be appreciated :-) Regards!, Zach http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~zu22 ________________________________________________________ uram@cmu.edu "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29 - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:30:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Saxby Subject: SunOS for 3/110, 3/60 and 3/260... To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I'm currently in need of SunOS boot tapes for my newly obtained 3/60, 3/110 and 3/260. If they came from someone in the UK, that would be easiest. I have blank tapes that I can send. The other thing that I desperately need is DB50-DB50 SCSI cables, and DB50 to MicroD50 SCSI cables. If anybody has any for sale, it would be appreciated. Cheers, Gavin. ______________________________________________________________________ | I ache, therefore I am. | Gavin Saxby | | | Heriot-Watt University | | Marvin, the Paranoid Android. | Edinburgh | |____________________________________________|_________________________| - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:12:05 -0500 (EST) From: David Herron Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #6 To: Dwight McKay > I have a sparcstation 1 at home, I have installed my cdrom drive and > my hard drive. Now, how do I install solaris 7? > Any help would be appreciated. I haven't seen Solaris 7 yet, but when I installed Solaris 2.6 on my SS2 it was just a matter of following the instructions. Basically, insert the main CDROM, boot from the CDROM, and follow the directions. However -- 2.6 on my SS2 was slower than molassas. Running that same CPU with SunOS 4.1.x everything worked fine. 2.6 - very very slow. This was in 64 MB of memory too, so memory should not have been a problem. Rather than find out what was 'wrong' I lived with it until I saw an ad from Memoryx (http://www.memoryx.com) saying they had some motherboards left over from (er... I forget the name but it was one of the SPARC Clone companies) that was an SS5 equivalent but in a form factor that fits an SS1/2 pizza box. As an SS5 (still with 64 MB memory) it is still slow, but only as slow as honey - not molassas. In other words, it is livable for me since this is not my primary machine. Using the distributed.net client for SPARC/Solaris, the SS5 gives a rate of 30 kkeys/sec, while my slowest PC (a 100 MHz 486) gives a 90 kkeys/sec rate and the fastest (a 300 MHz Cyrix M-II) gives over 300 kkeys/sec. Continuing this apples and oranges comparison, the SPARC Ultra 1 that I am typing on now gives 321 kkeys/sec and it gives pretty good response as a user. David - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:44:53 -0000 From: "Richard M Davis" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #6 To: Hi Everyone, Ok I've got a Sun 3/60 as some of you may know and I want to connect it to my IP. Is there anyway I can re-direct a DNS on the Sun to the PC etc if so how? Many thanks, Richard --- Richard M Davis | A1200 68040 | Sun 3/60 Work Station http://www.rmdavis.demon.co.uk | IRC rickymd - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:32:46 -0500 From: Mauricio Tavares Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #6 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com At 02:20 PM 2/24/99 EST, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:08:08 -0500 >From: jasons >Subject: HELP >To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > >I have a sparcstation 1 at home, I have installed my cdrom drive and my >hard drive. Now, how do I install solaris 7? >Any help would be appreciated. > Jason, if my vague memory is still somewhat accurate, you set the CD ID to 6, then boot the solaris cd by typing "boot sd(0,6,2)" or something like that. It should then run the install program. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************