Date: Mon, 27 May 96 08:04:14 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #18 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 27 May 96 Volume 9 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs Larger then 2 GIG on 4.1.3_U1 Need NVRAM for Sparc 2 printing, partitions, booting SunOS 3.X manuals looking for a home Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #17 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 21 May 1996 11:43:55 -0700 From: philh@netcom.com (Phil Hunter) Subject: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > ... bought a 4Gb Seagate Baracuda for his SPARC. Under SunOs (4.1.1 I > think) he can partition the drive but gets an error when he tries to > create a new file system. He seems to be limited to 2Gb ... On my SS2 w/ Seagate 4.3GB (ST15230N) running 4.1.4, my solution was to limit partition sizes below 2GB. You can have up to 6 partitions ( a - h minus "c" for the whole drive & "b" for swap ). You can have hierarchal mounts such as /usr being the "g" partition and the "h" partition being mounted to /usr/local. You don't have to have every mount point in the root partition. For this group's focus (home users) I recommend staying away from DiskSuite, it is non-trivial to setup & maintain, not to mention it costs money. regards, phil (philh@netcom.com) - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:04:43 -0400 From: Duncan Cameron Subject: Larger then 2 GIG on 4.1.3_U1 To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi all, > ... bought a 4Gb Seagate Baracuda for his SPARC. Under SunOs (4.1.1 I > think) he can partition the drive but gets an error when he tries to > create a new file system. He seems to be limited to 2Gb ... Ok, I am the proud owner of the 4Gb Seagate Baracuda (ST15150W). I only really wanted a 2Gb drive but fortune smiled on and I managed to get this drive for a bargain. Sadly however I spent a great deal of time trying to get the thing partitioned correctly under 4.1.3_U1. At first I thought that no single parition could be larger then 2Gig. So I started out with a partition table like this. a root 200 meg b swap 100 c whole disk 4 gig g usr 1.7 gig h home 2 gig However after the miniroot was installed and newfs was being run on /usr I got a seek error. I don't belive that the disk was at fault. I think that the parition c (whole disk) was limited to 2 gig. So I partitioned the disk like this: a root 200 meg b swap 100 c whole disk 2 gig g usr 700 meg h home 1 gig And things work fine, except that I only use 1/2 of the disk space 8-( /Duncan - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 19:51:35 -0400 From: David Pirmann Subject: Need NVRAM for Sparc 2 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, Suns-at-homers, I have a Sparc 2 that needs a new NVRAM/battery. I get this message on power-up: FAILURE: NVRAM (f2000003) Battery Failure, Exp = 000000ff, Obs = 00000000 Starting real time clock... Incorrect configuration checksum; Clearing to default values. Is the NVRAM easily replacable? Can anyone supply the part number and a source for this part? Thanks, Dave - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:14:45 -0400 From: Rick McClinton Subject: printing, partitions, booting To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:17:43 -0400 > From: biggers@gooey.saiph.com (Mark R. Biggers) > Subject: Anyone has the wonderful Solaris 2.x "lp" running? > To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Hello, > > Has anyone actually succeeded in getting the Solaris "lp" service > talking to a printer on their 2.4/2.5 Solaris SPARC system? I just > upgraded to 2.5, and as with 2.4, am almost ready to re-install the > "Berkeley lpr" port, after some fiddling with Admintool and lpblah > commands. Yes; at home I have an ATT 593 in postscript mode on /dev/term/a; and I have been working quite a bit with Solaris and printers in the office. I think admintool is the easiest way to set up a printer. First use the port administrator to configure the port - set the serial parameters and disable login services. Then use the printer tool to create from scratch the printer setup. You can look in /usr/share/lib/terminfo/* to try to find your printer if it is not listed in print admin's menu. There is no /etc/printcap in this printing system. Sun appears to agree that lp sucks; they apparently plan to replace the sysV system with some ISO printing system, but keep the BSD compatibility. (from a white paper in the HelpDesk CD.) > Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:34:03 -0600 (MDT) > From: "Tim R. Ayers" > Subject: SunOS and Solaris on IPX > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > I have a Sparc IPX running SunOS 4.1.4. I've heard rumor that you can > set up a Sparc to run either SunOS or Solaris depending on how you > boot it. I was hoping someone could explain the basics of doing > that. Does one have two different hard drives, one with SunOS and one > with Solaris, or maybe one drive with two different partitions? Fresh install the second OS to a blank partition or disk. Then use the openboot prom commands if you're going to boot from the non-default disk. i.e. boot /sbus/esp/sd@1,0a where @1 is the scsi ID (real id?) and 'a' is the partition. Do you have openboot 2.0 on the IPX? I dual-booted Sunos4 and netBSD for a little while. > Can the two OSes share the spool so you don't have different mail > depending on what OS is functioning? I assume the spool would need to > be on a partition different from the ones containing either OS. You can mount 4.1.x partitions on Solaris. You might have to mess around a little with symlinks to get the path correct. > You probably understand the level of knowledge I'm at (low ;-). Thanks > a lot for any help. > > Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Likewise! Rick McClinton rmcclint@Tmac.com - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 May 96 15:35:51 -0500 From: Kevin Kim Subject: SunOS 3.X manuals looking for a home To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi all, I have a (nearly) complete set of SunOS 3.x manuals looking for a good home. The first volume (the index, in think) is missing, but otherwise the set is complete. I need the shelf space, and don't really use the manuals anymore. Price: free. I am in Washington D.C. I am willing to ship anywhere, provided you pay for the shipping. Please email and replies to kykim@access.digex.net -kevin kykim@access.digex.net - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Benson Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #17 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:17:43 -0400 > From: biggers@gooey.saiph.com (Mark R. Biggers) > Subject: Anyone has the wonderful Solaris 2.x "lp" running? > To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Has anyone actually succeeded in getting the Solaris "lp" service > talking to a printer on their 2.4/2.5 Solaris SPARC system? I just > upgraded to 2.5, and as with 2.4, am almost ready to re-install the > "Berkeley lpr" port, after some fiddling with Admintool and lpblah > commands. This is not too bad. lpadmin -p ps -h -I ps -m -T unknown -v /dev/term/b \ -o stty='19200 -isig igncr cstopb -echok ixon -ixany' enable ps accept ps And, if you want it as your default, lpadmin -d ps Andrew (andrew@arbitrade.com) - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************