Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:27:01 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #29 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 12 Sep 94 Volume 7 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: Duncan's 3/60 setup questions ROM upgrades for 3/60's? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Sep 1994 21:27:38 UTC From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Duncan's 3/60 setup questions To: (null) The thing to keep in mind is that it's not the OS that doesn't support CDROMs, it's the ROMs. So one thing you can do if all you've got is a 4.1.1u1 CD and boot tapes for an older OS is do the miniroot hack. Now this is a bit of a chicken-and-egg probelm, since you've got to get the miniroot file off the CD and onto a tape to get this to work, but if you look on the CD in /export/exec/kvm/*, you'll find a file called miniroot, or some such. When you want to do anything, you simply need to copy the contents of this file to your swap partition, then boot sd(,,1) -sw. The resulting miniroot will have no trouble at all talking to your CD locally. You can do any filesystem repair or suninstall quite normally. Getting there, of course, is half the fun. If memory serves, however, older OSes came with a standalone copy program and a standalone format program. One might envision a tape with standalone format, in order to slice up a disk, if necessary; standalone copy, and the miniroot file from the CD. That tape would be enough to bring up miniroot even under the harshest conditions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Sep 94 17:38:53 EDT From: Greg Tarsa Subject: ROM upgrades for 3/60's? To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu There have been several mentions of "latest ROM revisions" for 3/60 machines. Can anyone point me at a source for them? Does one go directly to SUN? Any info would be appreciated. Greg Contract Software Services, Inc. ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************