Date: Fri, 1 Nov 96 22:03:35 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #41 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Fri, 1 Nov 96 Volume 9 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: Dvorak keyboards? Installing SunOS? Mac-Sparc and my ISP... Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #40 (2 msgs) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 23:14:03 +0200 From: Bennie Venter Subject: Dvorak keyboards? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I'm trying to locate a DVORAK style keyboard for a sparc system I own. I'm quite used to it by using it on PC's & would welcome it on SPARC. Pse contact me if anyone knows where I can find it. Second hand equipment in good working order is quite ok. Tnx & Bi Bennie Venter - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:23:47 +0200 (EET) From: Sami Laine Subject: Installing SunOS? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I've just got old Sun Sparcstation 1 and SunOS 4.1.3_U1 on CD-Rom. SS1 seems to be ok, but contents of hard disk aren't - every time I try to boot from hd, it says vmunix is not executable, so I assume someone messed with this machine before dumping it to warehouse. I do not have access to Sun bootable CD-Rom, and SS1's boot monitor doesn't even list sr-devices as bootable ones, so I assume only way to get this machine alive again is to install SunOS via network. I have a little network at home, so I assume it's possible to setup one of my Linux boxes as a boot server for Sun. But I have no idea what files I should server for Sun to make it boot or how to do some "fdisking" on Sun's harddisk? -- Sami Laine, lane@iki.fi, http://www.iki.fi/lane/ PGP Public key available from http://www.iki.fi/lane/pubkey.asc. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 00:20:36 -0500 From: Ed Potter Subject: Mac-Sparc and my ISP... To: I have my Mac Q800 and Sparc 1 on a dialup PPP connection. After dropping off PPP, I can ftp between the Sparc and Mac using hosts files (1.1.1.100, 1.1.1.101) and a $100 Asante hub.I was wondering how can I spoof the Sparc so I can have it and the Mac on the Net at the same time with out having to $$$ out for Lan dial from my ISP which is the only way they claim I can have both machines on at the same time. PS : Heard you could this on Linux, but not on Sparc? thanks [One way to do this is to use the SPARCstation as an application layer] [gateway between the Internet and a private address space on your own ] [intranet as described in RFC1597. I do this at net-kitchen. It allows] [my other machines Internet access via proxy servers on my ] [SPARCstation. --ddm ] - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:30:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Evan D. Baer" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #40 Heys- I have a Sun 4/470 with SunOS 4.1.4 and am getting some odd messages in the syslog about once a day or so: messages:Oct 29 01:17:40 shiznit vmunix: spurious VME interrupt at processor level 2 messages:Oct 29 01:17:40 shiznit vmunix: VME level 1, VME vector 0xffffffff Any idea what that means, and how to fix it? Regards, Evan - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Oct 96 23:51:13 -0500 From: jmz@onyx.bcl.net Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #40 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I am looking at buying a 4m machine,and I have a couple of old 1+ chassis and ps'es.Is it better to buy a whole SS4 or 5,which take proprietary memory and often come with stinky Sun monitors,or a Cycle or Axil board and a GX or TX buffer? [I've got a Cycle 5, 110 Mhz board in an old SS1+ chassis with an ancient] [two slot GX. It runs fine even with my old 1 Mb SIMMs from the SS1+. ] [Look at http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah/ARCHIVES/DIGESTS/vol9.issue11 ] [for a complete description of my Cycle 5 board. You might also want to ] [read the following issues for comments various readers made on the ] [merits of the Cycle 5 versus purchasing a high-end PC and running linux ] [or Solaris x86. --ddm] - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************