Date: Sat, 16 Sep 00 15:29:25 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #24 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 16 Sep 00 Volume 13 : Issue 24 Today's Topics: Connecting VGA minitor to cgix ( SUN GX) card --help FINALLY -> SaH is becoming more automated and flexible Help installing SunOS 4.x How to reconfig IP under Solaris 7? late rev SunOS versioning & Y2K issues Questions about SunOS 4.1.x SunOs and Y2K Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #23 (2 msgs) Sys-unconfig discovered! Y2K vs. SunOS 4.1.x +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 16 Sep 2000 02:16:55 GMT From: "Mr.Venkat D" Subject: Connecting VGA minitor to cgix ( SUN GX) card --help To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com hi managers.. I went through all the archives and i could not find the answer. I have been working hard to get this thing to work. I have a SS20 with a SUN GX graphic card and i have the SUN converter 13W3 -> VGA Female adapter ( 530-2357-01) I have connected a NEC multisync monitor ( model JC-14W1VMA) This monitor works fine with the PC but i get no display when connected to the SUN. I even tried Voxon Monitor ( model no SM483C) even that did not work with the SUN Server. All help will be really appreciated. Thanks to all in advance _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:17:44 -0500 From: dwight@net-kitchen.com (Dwight D. McKay) Subject: FINALLY -> SaH is becoming more automated and flexible To: sah@net-kitchen.com Friends, After 13 years of running Suns-at-Home, I'm moving from my vi-and-csh-script based list management to something more modern. After you receive this digest, the SaH list will move to being managed under GNU Mailman. Mailman will provide a number of features list members have asked for over the years, including: * The choice of digest or single message delivery. * A web-based subscription management interface. * A web-based archive interface. The list will remain moderated, that is, I will approve postings to the list. While this limits the speed at which messages come out, it rids the list of the wonders of "Make $10,000 in your spare time" and other SPAM we can all do without. The approval process is also web-based and I'll try and process messages frequently. NB: When I cut over, all subscribers will be set to receive individual messages. If you want digests, it's easy to go the web interface and switch. When I cut the list over, you will receive the "new subscriber" message which will contain the URLs for the web interfaces. -- Dwight D. McKay, Senior Technical Consultant & Suns-at-Home List Owner Network Kitchen Consulting dwight@net-kitchen.com - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:00:52 -0700 From: "Paul Khoury" Subject: Help installing SunOS 4.x To: "Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com" , I recently acquired gzip'ed tar images of SunOS 4.1.1 for sun3 and SunOS 4.0.3 After unzipping and untarring them, I found they're images, marked as ./tape1/, ./tape2/, etc How do I copy these to tapes? I'm assuming the tape drive will figure out it's supposed to be bootable after they're written? Also, what is supported by way of tape drives on the Sun2's and 3's? I have a Sun 2/120 with 7MB of RAM, no SCSI controller currently, but I have serial and network, and a Sun 3/60 with 24MB of RAM, and the usual features minus color framebuffer. I was running NetBSD on the 3/60, but I'd like to try something new. Thanks in advance, Paul - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:09:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Ehrlich Subject: How to reconfig IP under Solaris 7? To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com Hello to all: Someone gave me the forgotten command sysunconfig. Solaris 7 doesn't seem to have that. How do I gracefully reconfigure the IP information on my Sparc 5 w/Solaris 7? Thanks. Scott - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 00 03:54:52 CDT From: robert@bonomi.com (robert bonomi) Subject: late rev SunOS versioning & Y2K issues To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com chronology, w/o time-base: 4.1.3 Supports machine models through the SparcStation 10. Supports ALL Sparc-based machines, back to the "Sun 4/110" 4.1.3_U1 supposedly the "absolutely final" version of SunOS' Essentially, this was 'plain' 4.1.3 with all the 'general applicability' patches/bug-fixes applied. "Nothing further" was planned to be done. no general- release patches, no development, etc. All new machine _models_ built after the date of this release would *require* Solaris 2.x The "Classic" and "LX", released together, were the first 'beneficiaries' of that policy. 4.1.3C a "specially modified" version of 4.1.3, to support the Classic and LX Supported those "sun4m" machines _only_. Issued when Sun admitted (finally) that Solaris 2.1 was _not_ ready for 'real world' use. 4.1.3_U1 Rev B 4.1.3_U1 with additional accumulated patches/bug-fixes applied, *PLUS* the Classic/LX kernel architecture support from 4.1.3C. 4.1.4 Added SS20 and SS5 hardware support to the kernel arch. integrated the last batch of patches/bug-fixes. Y2K issues: There were _not_ many compliance problems. The issues were the same for basically *any* "non y2k" compliant version of UNIX, independant of vendor, hardware architecture, and (within reason) "age". 1) The system-supplied "date" command accepted _only_ 2 digits, for the year when setting the date -- making it impossible to set a date anytime in 2000 or later. Strictly a user-interface issue -- the actual system call _was_ OK; The GNU drop-in replacement command had no such limitation, and worked correctly w/o any other system changes. 2) A number of pieces of the SCCS package needed tweaking. Mostly just 'cosmetic' issues, tho there were a few cases where things sorted in 'unexpected' ordering. 3) There may have been a couple of issues in the job-accounting _reporting_ commands. There was nothing that resulted in 'operational failures', or operational _errors_ 'date' was essentially the only thing that was really 'broken', as in "unusable". - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:16:47 +0200 From: Peter Koch Subject: Questions about SunOS 4.1.x To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Hi! "Robert Blackshaw" wrote: >Can't answer for 4.1.3, but my 3/60 running 4.1.1_U1 passed 1/1/00 >without a hitch (Y2K indeed). The Y2K issues of SunOS are truly minor. Nevertheless there are about ten known Y2K related bugs in SunOS 4.1.X, fortunately none in the kernel. If you have installed the latest libc jumbo patch, you can safely apply the Y2K-patches and it will work. Sun3 users should download my Y2K-patch for SunOS 4.1.1; it can be found on my web page: http://www.sun3zoo.de Tschuess Peter - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:26:49 -0400 (EDT) From: VASSILIS PREVELAKIS Subject: SunOs and Y2K To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com In Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #23, Robert Blackshaw" wrote: > Can't answer for 4.1.3, but my 3/60 running 4.1.1_U1 passed 1/1/00 > without a hitch (Y2K indeed). > > Bob Apparently you haven't tried to change the date yet! The date(1) command wants the date in yymmddhhmm format and you cannot specify the century!! The bug bit me sometime in January and for a moment I though my Sun was trapped in the last century, but then I had an idea: I specified a date in the last few seconds of 1999, then waited for the rollover. Once my Sun was back in year 2000, I used the SysV form of date(1V) without the year. Really scary till I figured it out. Sun has made available in their Web site a set of Y2K patches for SunOs. **vp - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:21:49 EEST From: "v b" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #23 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com >From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) >Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com >To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com >Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #23 >Date: Sat, 9 Sep 00 11:34:25 EST >Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:50:01 +0200 (CEST) >From: Rainer Duffner >Subject: anything-less SPARC ? >To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com >I have a SPARC-Station 10, and due to space-constraints, >have removed the monitor. >As the keyboard and the mouse are just catching dust, I'd >like to remove them, too. >But the SPARC won't boot without these. >How can I boot the SPARC without any peripherals ? The machine will indeed boot without a keyboard and a mouse, in so-called "terminal mode". If you attach a terminal to the serial port, the machine should boot just fine. Actually, it should boot without the terminal too. Just make sure all the settings in the PROM are correct, eg. the output needs to be changed from CONSOLE to serial.. Take a look at the PROM and reconfigure the settings for a boot in a terminal mode. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:10:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Leir EPS Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #23 To: Dwight McKay > As the keyboard and the mouse are just catching dust, I'd > like to remove them, too. > But the SPARC won't boot without these. Hook something to ttya. I think the sun needs to see some RS232 flow control signal(s) before it will be happy. Bonus: now you have a console! cheers -- Rick - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:11:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Ehrlich Subject: Sys-unconfig discovered! To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com Sorry for my previous email. What a forgotten character can do! :-( Scott - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:57:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Subject: Y2K vs. SunOS 4.1.x To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com >Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 08:29:55 -0400 >From: "Robert Blackshaw" >Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #22 >> - What is the actual year 2000 status of 4.1.3 - according to Sun, I think >> only 4.1.3_U1 can be made compliant by applying patches. >Can't answer for 4.1.3, but my 3/60 running 4.1.1_U1 passed 1/1/00 >without a hitch (Y2K indeed). Likewise. Switching topics a bit (I'm lazy...) it seems to have finally died (likely from overheating), and I don't have the time & inclination to spend trying to revive it -- despite having about 40 1 MB SIMMs and another 3/60 that someone gave me (that I never got around to doing anything with), a broken 3/110, a (believed to be working) 4/110 system board, and assorted cables, some sort of Sun printer, an HP LaserJet 1+, a couple of shoeboxes & stuff. (I think I could include some thinnet coax & connectors in that.) And I need to un-clutter my house a bit. So any combination of the stuff listed is free for the taking, as long as I don't need to ship it. I'm in Redwood City, CA (about midway between San Francisco & San Jose). I do have a pickup truck, and I'm willing to haul stuff within a reasonable distance (which is highly context-sensitive & subjective); I work in Foster City (near the western terminus of the San Mateo-Hayward bridge). Email is likely one of the better ways to reach me. I'd like the stuff that might be usable to go to a good home, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************