Date: Sat, 17 Feb 96 08:55:58 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V8 #6 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 17 Feb 96 Volume 9 : Issue 6 Today's Topics: Diskless booting Help! OS choice for home machine Spring Cleaning +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 16:22:43 EST From: Alex Dumitru Subject: Diskless booting To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, Is anyone on this list booting a sun diskless from a FreeBSD box? If so I would appreciate it if you could contact me with some details on your particular setup. cheers alex -- Alex Dumitru - alex@innovus.com - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 08:54:46 CST From: pete@wrkgrp.com (Pete Rupp) Subject: Help! To: Suns-at-Home-Request@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello there... I'm having a serious problem with our Solaris (2.4) X86 system and need help. "All of a sudden...one day...I couldn't su to root. It kept saying su: Unknown id: root" "Next, I tried to su to another known non-root id, and after it prompted me for the passwd, It said: Could not initialize groups" I'm running NIS. Does anybody know what could have gone wrong? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Peter Rupp Voice: 708-696-4800 ext. 52 The Workstation Group Ltd. Email: pete@wrkgrp.com Rosemont, Illinois 60018 Web: http://www.wrkgrp.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:21:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Anthony D'Atri" Subject: OS choice for home machine To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com >I find that where I want to >upgrade software packages for the SS2, that the newest >versions always support Solaris and sometimes aren't even >available for Sun OS Solaris *includes* SunOS. It is a superset, not a successor. >(even some compilable software... >though that's the exception instead of the rule for >stuff you get in source form...) Unless Net/FreeBSD are substantially different from BSDI, getting things to build on it is likely to be a hassle sometimes. >Probably the most annoying feature is the omission of >a C compiler. Is there a real commercial OS these days that *does* come with a non-gcc compiler any more? >a X11R5 based version of OpenWindows, Only a concern if one runs one of the 24-bit fb's that MIT's server doesn't handle, and thus one must use Sun's server. >the ability to easily use DNS without YP resolv+ is pretty simple to install for SunOS 4.x. >>NetBSD is quite a bit >>more modern, secure, and supported than S(t)unOS. SunOS is no less supported on the net than NetBSD. >>Of it is essentially >>SunOS binary compatible too, so long as you load it up with a copy of >>the SunOS shared libraries. I'd love to see a description of how this can work. - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:23:09 -0500 From: kent@cooper.paa.com Subject: Spring Cleaning To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I need room in my office! If any one is interested in this stuff let me know. Otherwise its off to the dump :-( SPARCstation 2: $750 --------------- 16Mb RAM GX framebuffer (2 slot) keyboard and mouse Viper QIC-150 tape drive: $75 ------------------------- Sony CDROM in Sun Enclosure: $85 ---------------------------- 16" Sony Color Monitor: $95 ----------------------- Telebit WorldBalzer 14.4 Modem: $50 ------------------------------ Solaris 2.4 w/WABI, Answerbooks: $25 -------------------------------- QIC-150 Tapes (in good shape): $4 ------------------------------ Sun Microphone II : $5 ------------------- D9 Audio/Mic cbl : $5 ------------------ D9 - DB25 serial Cbl: $5 --------------------- IPX vertical stand: $8 ------------------ AT&T Starlan 10 TPE AUI Adaptor: $6 --------------------------------- SCSI Terminators: $4 ------------------- ---kent - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************