Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 13:56:24 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #42 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 9 Nov 96 Volume 9 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: 3/60 upgrade? Bad DIsk? Dvorak keyboards? (2 msgs) Installing SunOS? (3 msgs) Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #41 (3 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: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:23:12 -0500 (EST) From: ted@UU.NET (Ted Beatie) Subject: 3/60 upgrade? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com A friend of mine mentioned a 040 upgrade to the 3/60 that may boost it up to Sparc speeds.. I couldn't find anything in the archives. Anyone know about it? Thanks.. - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 96 14:13:32 -0600 From: Aditya Jani Subject: Bad DIsk? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi got a used Sun SPARC 2 with booting problems.. When I powerup the external disk in the shoe box (Maxtor disk) keeps spinning and the boot sequence does not progress When I shut the power to thew shoe box the boot sequence starts progressing and bootsup (without mounting the shoebox disk) How can I check if the disk is bad or if it is just the configuration? Thanks -jani - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 13:27:19 +0100 From: Prevelakis Vassilis Subject: Dvorak keyboards? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com In Suns-at-Home Digest (Volume 9 : Issue 41) Bennie Venter writes: > 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. The Sun keyboad is fully remappable so you can change the layout both in console mode (see loadkeys(1) and keytables(5)) and in Openwindows mode (see xmodmap(1) in the Openwindows manual pages). BTW I mainly use SunOs but I should think that both methods work on Solaris as well. Now the only remaining problem is the keyboard keycaps which will obviously be wrong. There is a company called Hooleon (www.hooleon.com) that has been offering stick-on labels for keyboards since the begining of the PC era, so they may have something for the Sun kbd. Hope this helps **vp - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:27:16 -0600 (CST) From: aqn@tivoli.com (Andy Nguyen) Subject: Dvorak keyboards? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Bennie Venter wrote: >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. One option you may want to try is to use a program that maps the usual QWERTY keyboard to a Dvorak keyboard. One such program that I know of is "xdovrak", a public domain program posted some while ago in one of the UNIX source newsgroups. "archie" or something like that should be able to find it. I have the source on my machine at home if anybody wants it. -- Andy Nguyen \ aqn@tivoli.com \ Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX \ 512.436.8229 I still miss Charles Wang, but my aim is getting better. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 15:45:43 +1100 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: Installing SunOS? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > 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. The normal way to boot a Sparc machine from CD is to type 'b sd(0,6,2)' at the '>' prompt, or if you have a version 2.0 bootrom, you can go to the so-called 'new command mode' and just type 'boot cdrom' at the 'ok' prompt. This latter command doesn't work with version 1.0 bootroms. Regards, Craig. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:13:16 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson Subject: Installing SunOS? To: Suns at Home Sami Laine writes: > 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. Yes, this is not too difficult. However, you will need programs that don't come standard with Linux. My advice is to get a copy of the `Xserver' kit for Linux. That's normally used for booting Sun 3 systems, but all of the Linux programs will also work for booting Sparc systems. However, you will have to find another source for binaries (kernel, etc.) for the Sparc. Or you could just consider running NetBSD or Linux on the Sparc. I run NetBSD on my Sparcstation 1, and I'm quite happy with it. cjs - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Nov 96 01:39:39 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Installing SunOS? To: lane@iki.fi > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:23:47 +0200 (EET) > Subject: Installing SunOS? > > 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 ... > I do not have access to Sun bootable CD-Rom, and SS1's boot monitor doesn't > even list sr-devices as bootable ones ... Any CD drive which can be set to 512 bytes per sector "should" work. It may not be possible to boot from CD in "old" mode, but "boot cdrom" should work in "new" mode (at the "ok " prompt). If not, you could try booting it as sd6. The need to boot from CD as if it were a normal SCSI hard disk is the reason why Sun CD drives were set up with 512-byte transfer size instead of the industry-standard 2048. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:35:27 -0800 From: bwalker@breakthru.musings.com (Brad Walker) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #41 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > 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 > You need to check the BG3 & IACK jumpers on the back of the VME card cage. Verify they are set correct for what might or might not be in the respective slot.. -brad w. - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 96 09:25 EST From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #41 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com From: jmz@onyx.bcl.net Subject: Sparc-4m options 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? how much do you want to spend? [ie. used or new?] whatever you do, -don't- get a ss4 unless they're practically giving it to you. you could just get a ss5 base, and run the monitor of your choice -- even vga. in my cramped computer nook, my ss2-weitek has a sony 15sx; it's sharp and clear and rock-solid even with 8-point fonts, though i have to use 16 if i want to read it at 5 ft. many sun sony 17" and 20" monitors have cheaper multisync vga versions. i evaluated both the cycle5 and axilerate boards, and bought 10 axils to upgrade ss1s at my old job. they were very close, but i thought the axil was a little better -- they placed the cpu chip where it would get good air from the chassis cooling slots, so it didn't need a third fan. both boards were -70s, and were about 5x the ss1+, 2x ss2-weitek in performance. i know at least one clone-maker had a ss2-clone running at 50MHz instead of 40, and that weitek - who made the sun4c chip - was not permitted by sun to advertise the fact that it would run much faster than the ss2's 40. what i want to know is -- has anyone chipped an ss2 to 50, or an ss2-weitek? i don't suppose anyone's running headless, or interested in hardware hacking for that matter. but has anyone out there figured out the mods necessary to turn the keybd and mouse ports into ttys? the tty driver can access the chip with minor numbers of 2 and 3 on the tty devices files... - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 08:34:50 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Leir Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #41 To: Dwight McKay > 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. Are you just trying to remap the keys? If so, use xkeycaps. It is a friendly gui keyboard remapping program. It is available from the ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib site (i forget which subdirectory). I have sticky paper labels on the keys which I remapped. cheers -- Rick - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************