Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 09:55:28 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #37 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 15 Nov 93 Volume 6 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: Installing 4.1.1 from tape on 3/60 kadb for Sun-3, SunOS 4.1.1 SLIP on SunSparc2/os 4.1.3 Sun RF, monitor problems, [34]/110 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 17:21:50 +0100 From: Soenke Behrens Subject: Installing 4.1.1 from tape on 3/60 To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Suns-At-Home Mailing) Hello, What I want to do is install SunOS 4.1.1 on a 3/60 from tape. The 3/60 sports a shoebox with 60MB tape and ~300MB HD and that's it ... no second HD, no other machine to boot it via ether or anything. After booting the tape, I format, partition and label the HD, install miniroot on sd0b, and boot it. Type 'suninstall', choose one of the options (let's say 'easyinstall all' for the sake of not having to describe too much, I tried various settings and it didn't make a difference), and let the installation procedure run. About the first line I get is: "Label disk(s): sd0" followed by an abort message. A look at it shows that easyinstall was trying to run format to label the HD (although it already _is_ labeled, mind you), and that failed because format complained that a part of sd0 (namely, sd0b) was mounted. Suggestions so far ranged from "try not to boot from sd0b" (impossible, I have only one HD) over "try to run suninstall directly from tape" (impossible, the shell I can get from tape doesn't have /usr/etc/install) to "make sure the hog partition is sd0g" (didn't help). So, any help/suggestions/insight greatly appreciated, even if it's just "A Sun-3 was never meant to have SunOS installed all by itself without a link to another Sun or a second HD", although I'd of course be happier about something along the lines of "Oh sure, you didn't shloop the gleep, do that and it'll work out fine" :) Regards and thanks in advance Soenke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 13:17:59 PST From: dd@mv.us.adobe.com (David DiGiacomo) Subject: kadb for Sun-3, SunOS 4.1.1 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Does anyone have a working kadb suitable for use with a Sun-3 4.1.1 kernel? (I've tried the 3.5, 4.0.3, and 4.1.1 versions -- no luck.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 13:23:39 -0600 From: Aditya Jani Subject: SLIP on SunSparc2/os 4.1.3 To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Which is a good public domain s/w for Sun OS4.1.3 , I am looking at slip4.0 on ai.toronto.edu. What patches would be required ? (I know a serial patch is required) Is that the only one patch needed? Thanks amj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 12:28:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Anthony A. Datri" Subject: Sun RF, monitor problems, [34]/110 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I don't think any of the 3's were FCC-rated for residential use, but note that some screenblankers -- eg., Sun's -- actually tell the frame buffer to stop sending a video signal, so you're probably seeing RF from the frame buffer itself. 3/50 monitor: could be the fuse. There's one on the back -- pop it out and take a look. > I'm looking to upgrade my trusty 3/110 system and heard it was >possible to replace the motherboard with one from a 4/110. If this is >possible Yep, although I'm not sure if any external memory will be recognized. You could also stick a 4/300 cpu in there. ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************