Date: Sun, 5 Mar 95 15:50:27 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #8 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 5 Mar 95 Volume 8 : Issue 8 Today's Topics: Archive 5945L-3 CSlip 2.7 on SunOS 4.1.1_U1 Format can't find my disk.... mosaic or netscape for sun 3's Need to boot a Sun 3/60 off a cdrom Sun2 boot trouble Suns at home alternatives (2 msgs) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 16:26:49 -0500 (EST) From: "John H. Sherk" Subject: Archive 5945L-3 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I have a bare 5 1/4 inch HH Archive 5945L-3 tape drive. I also have a couple of old used 1/4 inch tape cartridges (that did not come with the drive). I have two requests... 1. Can anyone point me toward a FAQ or a spec sheet for this tape drive? 2. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to hang this drive on my 3/60? I am referring to the complete setup here... physical connection, as OS configuration. If this is a pointless endeavor please be kind. It didn't cost me anything so if it can't be used I won't be heartbroken :-). - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 11:19:38 -0500 From: kykim@access.digex.net (kevin kim) Subject: CSlip 2.7 on SunOS 4.1.1_U1 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Hi all, I've been trying to install cslip-2.7 on my Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1_U1, and run into some problems. I installed the BSD update/release tcp as suggested in the cslip README. The new version of tip seems to work just fine. The problem is in the sliplogin program. I get a "I_PUSH: Invalid argument" error. When I tried the slattach program to test the connection I get a "/dev/ttya: No such file or directory" I've been trying follow a bunch of previous discussions on this list about installing Slip, but couldn't get enough detail. Has anyone out there installed cslip on SunOS 4.1.1_U1? Anyone have any hints/suggestions? Email me directly if you do. Thanks, -kevin kykim@access.digex.net - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 95 09:54:22 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Format can't find my disk.... To: ejr@cs.UMD.EDU > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:48:13 -0500 > From: Evan Rosser > > I just got a 3/260 and I'm attempting to install SunOS 4.1.1 on it. > I have a Maxtor 7345S drive installed as the first device on the SCSI > chain, followed by the tape drive controller. It boots fine from > tape, but when I run format, it says "Searching for disks....no disks > found!" ... > > Here's what I've checked: > - disk SCSI ID set to 3 While it "should" be possible to make this work -- the disk would be sd6 -- the "usual" configuration for most sun3's is to have the disk at ID 0. It is only on sun4c and later machines that ID 3 is sd0. > ... > When MUNIX boots it says: > sd0 at sc0 slave 0 > sd1 at sc0 slave 1 These are "units" 0 and 1 of target 0. An embedded SCSI disk like your Maxtor will always be unit 0 of whatever target (ID) it's set to -- non-zero unit numbers only arise when dealing with things like SCSI=>ESDI bridge cards or CDROM changers where a single SCSI target controller handles multiple disks. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 13:08:25 PST From: grover@vulcan1.es.hac.com (Dean Grover) Subject: mosaic or netscape for sun 3's To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu Does anyone have a version of mosaic or netscape that will run on a sun 3 ? I need to have it statically linked with Motif, since I don't have the source or libraries for Motif at home! Or am I gonna have to upgrade my 3/110 to a 4/110 ? Thanks! Dean - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 95 10:02:54 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Need to boot a Sun 3/60 off a cdrom To: darryl@sai.com > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 09:49 EST > From: darryl@dax.sai.com (Darryl Wagoner) > > I am trying to install SunOS on a 3/60 from a sun cdrom. > I just don't know what device to boot off of? I have the impression that a 3/60 will not boot from a local CDROM drive at all, but I could be wrong about that. If it can be made to work, the method would be to set the CD to SCSI ID 6, and boot using > b sd(0,N,P) where N is probably 48 (8*ID) or 96 (16*ID) but it may need to be expressed in octal or hex. P is the appropriate partition number for the sun3 (not sun3x) boot image. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 06:15:58 -0500 (EST) From: Jacob C Freifeld Subject: Sun2 boot trouble To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I just got some boot tapes from Benji Cline (thanks again!) and I am trying to boot a sun2/170 from scsi tape. The tape drive I have attached is a PC 540 meg scsi tape drive, and it is plugged into the scsi controller in slot 11. Does the slot matter? When the machine boots, it checks it's ram fine, and enters the rom monitor, but then I can't get it to see the tape drive and boot from it. I have tried "b st(0,0,0)", "b st(0,1,0)", etc. Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated. -Jake - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 95 10:17:42 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Suns at home alternatives To: pwargo@Logical.NET > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 10:06:00 -0500 (EST) > From: "Pete Wargo" > > Having owned the following: > > -Sun 1/150 > -Sun 2/120, 2/50 > -Sun 3/50, 3/140, 3/160 > > as wells as using several mutated SPARCstations at work, I'd make my > choice for home an Intel box running SOlaris x86 2.4... This is all well and good for those who like SVR4, although I would recommend UnixWare rather than Solaris owing mostly to vastly better support. Linux is also worth a look. However, for those of us who prefer the Berkeley way of doing things, a sun3 or sun4 with SunOS 4.1.x or NetBSD will feel a lot friendlier than any SVR4 box. Intel boxes do have some advantages for home use, and you do not have to give up the Berkeley flavor: inexpensive or free Berkeley OS'es for Intel iron are BSDI, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:32:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Pete Wargo" Subject: Suns at home alternatives To: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) > > as wells as using several mutated SPARCstations at work, I'd make my > > choice for home an Intel box running SOlaris x86 2.4... > > This is all well and good for those who like SVR4, although I would > recommend UnixWare rather than Solaris owing mostly to vastly better > support. Linux is also worth a look. Hmmmm. Funny that topic should arise. I'm working with a company that uses both UnixWare and Solaris, and I've seen good support from both. Sun is a bit harder to grab by the throat, but their tech ppl. are excellent at ferreting out problems. > However, for those of us who prefer the Berkeley way of doing things, > a sun3 or sun4 with SunOS 4.1.x or NetBSD will feel a lot friendlier > than any SVR4 box. Intel boxes do have some advantages for home use, True. I have (as I've mentioned) everying from a -1 to a -4 at home, and I still prefer 4.1.x over everything else. But, the world does move on, and if you want to stay with the rest of the lemmings, you need to stay sharp on SVR4. Like it or not, it's the skill set that sells. > and you do not have to give up the Berkeley flavor: inexpensive or > free Berkeley OS'es for Intel iron are BSDI, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. Again, I have to pose the argument - what companies are using free OS's in a production environment? In my case, as much as I like 4.1.x, and BSD-based *NIX's, I need to keep my skill sets current. -PeteW - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************