Date: Sat, 1 Jun 96 07:43:55 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #19 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 1 Jun 96 Volume 9 : Issue 19 Today's Topics: 2+ gig disks on SunOS Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs ppp questions scanner solutions seeking monitor for sparc 1 Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #18 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Mon, 27 May 1996 22:58:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi Subject: 2+ gig disks on SunOS To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com + 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 minor nit: if this is not the boot drive, you _don't_ need to use "b" for swap. + 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-( your original schema *should* work. I'm running a ST43400N (2900mb formatted) on a 4/330 w/ sunOS 4.1.3 (_not_ "_U1"), as a secondary disk (my 'news" spool), and it's partitioned as: c 2.84 gig (5,683,000 blocks) g 2.08 gig (4,193,000 blocks) h 745 mb (1,490,000 blocks) I _did_ have *lots* of difficulty getting this to work. "Why?", I'm *not* sure. but I have my suspicions, based on my experience as follows: 1) on _first_ try, I partitioned 'h' as the _entire_ disk, 2) then tried to _newfs_ partition 'h'. 3) at this point, the O/S discovered it didn't know about the drive (no prior 'label' on it), read the label and extracted the info. 4) then 'newfs' apparently tries a seek to the end of the partition. 'seek error'. *splat* 5) I *CHANGE* the partitioning to <2gig for 'usable' partitons. (g as 2.0, h as 700+mb remainder) 6) try to newfs on -them-. *splat* 7) try all sorts of variations of the above (e.g., each as 1.4 gig, g as 700+/h as 2.0gig, etc.). no luck, *splat*, every time 8) I =reboot= the machine, everything -works-. (g as 2.0, h as 700+) hypothesis: SunOS reads the disk 'label' *ONCE*ONLY*, when it first accesses the drive. -or- any attempt to access an 'oversize' partition results in internal 'confusion' that only clears on a reboot. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:32:35 -0700 (PDT) From: spach@xor.lax.primenet.com (Stephen Anspach) Subject: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Phil Hunter writes: > For this group's focus (home users) I recommend staying away from DiskSuite, > it is non-trivial to setup & maintain... Have you looked at ODS4.x? GUI interface, drag-and-drop, slice manager, etc. Quite nice, IMHO. Very easy to use. > not to mention it costs money. Agreed. But it's a nice product. -- - Steve - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 May 96 20:04 PDT From: bkis@island.net (Jonathan Thornburg) Subject: ppp questions To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a Sun-at-home (an ELC) running SunOS 4.1.3. At present I use modem dialout to an ISP shell account to connect to the outside word, with kermit for file transfer. I'm considering upgrading to PPP, and I have several questions/concerns: The comp.protocols.ppp FAQ lists two main free PPP packages: PPP-2.2 and dp-2.3 (or newer versions if these exist). Can anyone offer any comparisons of these? I currently have (only) 3 Sun patches applied: - nfs Jumbo patch (#100173-13) - tmpfs jumbo patch (#100507-06) - newest Jumbo TTY patch (#100513-05) Are there any other patches of particular relevance to ppp? My ISP uses dynamic IP address assignment. Do I understand correctly that the PPP protocol negotiation includes communicating my current ip address into my kernel? (A friend who tried PPP-2.1.2 on a SunOS home system reported having trouble with this -- she was forced to reboot to clear the "old" ip address out of the kernel.) I'm worried about the security implications of creep@anywhere.on.net being able to send me "nastygram" packets whenever I have the PPP link active. One way to respond to this threat would be to bring my Sun up to directly-on-the-internet security standards and keep it there, but this would take a fair bit of work on my part. I'll probably only need a limited set of tcp/ip services over the PPP link: - outgoing telnet or rlogin sessions - www browser on my Sun - outgoing dns queries for the above - possibly remote X clients <--> X server on my Sun - possibly outgoing ftp and/or talk sessions (not essential) - possibly outgoing finger and/or ping (not essential) I don't expect to need - incoming telnet or rlogin sessions - ftp or www server on my Sun - dns server on my Sun - incoming finger or ping - mail transfer in either direction over the PPP link - NIS, nfs or other rpc services over the PPP link I'm the only user on the Sun, and there are no other systems networked to it locally, but for convenience I still run all the usual network services on a singleton "network". In particular, I run NIS, though I suppose I could get rid of this if I needed to. I run sendmail for local mail. I have Matt Blaze's (++good) Cryptographic File System running, so I have NFS configured in my kernel and rpc.mountd running, though not nfsd. Most of my SunOS binaries and configuration are ~1992 vintage, and I haven't applied any security patches (yet). And I'd rather not upgrade to 4.1.4 just yet if I don't have to. Given this context, is there any practical way I can use use packet filtering on the Sun to get reasonable security without having to individually secure each of my N different network services? More generally, what are other people with Suns-at-home and SLIP/PPP connections doing about security? - Jonathan Thornburg (personal E-mail) - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:40:32 -0400 From: "Gregory M. Paris" Subject: scanner solutions To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I checked the archive and didn't see the subject of scanners come up in 1995 or so far in 1996, so I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be a FAQ... What scanner solutions are folks using with their Suns? At the moment I have no scanner, so I'm pretty open to just about anything (that I can convince my wallet to go with). I've looked for software and found PINT (PINT Is Not TWAIN) for free, but works under SunOS 4.1.X, not Solaris 2.5 that I'm running. I also found a suite of commercial products from Mentalix , but given that prices are not listed on their web page, I'm afraid that, "If I have to ask, I can't afford it." :-( I had just about decided that maybe giving up on Sun and going with a Linux PC would be best, until I checked and saw that Linux doesn't have much for scanner support either. Hmmm.... In any case, I have an IPX, currently no parallel port. I'm mainly looking for color image scanning capability. Ideas welcome. Greg - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:40:25 -0700 From: ead@ixian.com Subject: seeking monitor for sparc 1 To: Suns-at-Home Digest Folks, I have a January 1991 sparc 1 monitor: model: GDM-1662B service code: 254BVC7 elec. ratings: 100-120V~, 50/60Hz, 3.7A frame buffer: 8-bit Color Graphics (cgthree) __________________________ | . . . . . | cable: | (o)(o) . . . . . (o) | -------------------------- that is going dim, and I think this kind of dimming is irreversible, so I'm going to have to replace it. How much should I expect to pay for such a used monitor in good condition? What monitors are compatible with a sparc 1? Thank you, Eric De Mund http://www.ixian.com/ixian/ead/ - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 23:54:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "David L. Elliott" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #18 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com David Pirmann wrote: >Subject: Need NVRAM for Sparc 2 > >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? Yes to both. See the NVRAM-FAQ, various versions of which may be found in ftp.netcom.com/pub/he/henderso/ maintained by markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark Henderson) David - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************