Has anyone successfully migrated a ZFS-hosted Solaris 10 sparc host
>from one arch (sun4u) to another (sun4v)? I have found all kinds of
docs on how to do it, if your source is UFS-rooted, but nothing, if
you're ZFS-rooted. This seems like a _huge_ oversight, to me, but I
lost my faith in Oracle, a long time ago.
I've tried:
1) root pool regeneration from "zfs send -r" snapshot backups
2) flar/jumpstart (add sun4v arch to flar, when creating)
3) liveupgrade
4) ldomp2v tool
None of these have been successful. The closest that I have gotten
was by doing a ZFS root pool restore, on the new host, and then
manually installing the ".v" versions of all of the missing packages.
That got the system booting, but there were a _lot_ of broken
libraries.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
- Alex
When I bought my TRS-80 Model I Expansion Interface, I worked for Radio Shack and had put the unit on layaway.
I bought the RAM mail-order because it was MUCH cheaper than what Radio Shack charged. The day before I was going to pay it off and take it home for good, I brought the unit home, cracked the case, installed the RAM, tested it, and then brought it back to the store.
I paid it off the following day, and brought it home.
I'm the only person I know who voided their warranty before it went into effect.
>> In both cases, I WAITED UNTIL I GOT HOME before I opened the computer
>> case.? (I'm not a hardware person)
>>
>
> Err, yes... I think I've only ever once dismantled a computer on the way
> home, and that was a DECmate II (whcih cna be taken apart without tools...)
Al
Hello,
We have a MV-2000 Mod II that we still use to manage our business. As time goes by, more and more of our tapes (DC-1000 21mb cartridges) are failing. I do have a copy of microcode (ver 10) from tape that has been saved to a hard drive as a disk image. As tapes fail, I've been able to make "new" copies, but I'm running out of tape cartridges.
Would anyone know where I could find microcode for our MV-2000 mod II on 5.25 floppies? Our MV has an internal 5.25 (720kb) diskette dive that could load microcode at boot time. I've already tried copying the tape image to floppy, but it appears not to be enough. I'm guessing DG organized microcode on floppy a little differently then on tape. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks for your time.
Tom
jtpinch-treiff at usa.net
I thought I had posted this, perhaps not.
Anyhow,
I have what's purported to be the "First" computer on the internet,
the one that joined the pieces together and I guess you could say "made" the internet,
or conversely, the "last" node, as it were (depending how you count).
It's also the system where E-Mail was first created.
It's a Sun SLC workstation, owned by Einar Steffard.
I have the original box (very slightly torn),
and the workstation itself is in very good shape except one cosmetic crack, which I believe can be fixed very easily.
I tried the smithsonian, and other computer museums, but basically was told they already had too many of this model,
never mind the significance of this particular unit.
it still runs, last I checked, and has all the original data still intact on it, such as it is.
now, I find myself with a severe lack of space, and need to part with it.
I would like a little bit of money for it, it wasn't a donation to me, and shipping maybe expensive.
or I would be willing to trade it for a vaxstation 4000, or perhaps a 3100 or two.
(I have a need for 2 working vaxen you see)
so anyhow, that's how it is, this piece of history sitting in the corner of my office, collecting dust,
and not doing much else.
I'd like to see it get to a good home, and never scrapped, I think it's too important for that.
so anyhow, anyone who wants this piece of history, drop me a note.
and yes, I have pics (including the shipping labels from Einar to me) for what it's worth...
Dan.
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If you like crossword puzzles, then you'll love Flexicon, a game which combines four overlapping crossword puzzles into one!
http://g.msn.ca/ca55/208
Out of curiosity, what is there in the way of modern software that
can read Word Perfect 5.1 (probably some 5.2 as well) for DOS
documents? The good news is that I retrieved all these files at some
point in the past from the 3.5" floppy they were on. :-)
Zane
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Here's a rather esoteric question that I suspect at least one person may be able to answer better than the collective urban legendry found on Google.
I have a Mac LC475 (same machine as Quadra 605), and I'm looking to max out the memory. None of Apple's tech notes mention anything about EDO memory, and people tend to generally think that it can handle it, but I've been bitten before. Does anyone have a good idea about whether the memory controller can handle it? Also whether it can actually take advantage of it? My gut feeling is yes to the first and no to the second.
Secondly, does anyone have experience with Micro Memory Bank? They seem to be offloading piles of newly-manufactured vintage-compatible (5V FPM and EDO) DIMMs and SIMMs on Ebay. The collective common wisdom for the LC475 is that 128MB SIMMs will work, but only if they're single-ranked. The salespeople for the vendor don't seem to know what I'm talking about when I ask, and I'm having a hard time getting photos of the board from them (which should at least let me look at the traces). Anyone know about their 128 MB EDO/FPM SIMMs?
Relevant auction number is 350478815002.
- Dave
Listen fellows...
I worked for two of the major hardware/software suppliers for the Radio Shack Color Computers. I have 10 of them in the next room, as well as a Tano Dragon 64k.
A stock Color Computer or Color Computer 2 has no Composite output. It only has an RF Modulator that tunes to channels 3 or 4 VHF (U.S. Models, I have no experience with other versions).
You cannot GET a composite signal without cracking the case and soldering a few wires to a simple circuit to clean up the signal. Several companies sold a tiny board with a few components that provided composite video and standard audio for use with a regular composite monitor (Mark Data Products, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, and a few others. I liked the MDP product best as it used little spring loaded clips and was basically solderless.). You can easily build one with parts in your junk box, or maybe $5 in parts from a local Radio Shack.
I will track down the schematic and find a way to post it.
The next best solution is the idea of using a VHS Player to capture the RF signal and convert it to Composite internally.
There are several Coco Emulators that one could just use on a PC and bypass the whole thing. Jeff Vavasour's (?http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco2?) is supposed to be one of the best.
I really like the Coco system, and I wish I had room to set one of mine up.
I co-wrote The Coco Greeting Card Designer, which was similar to the greeting card version of Print Shop. I have the rights to sell the follow-on, The Coco Graphics Designer which has all the different things with a Mac-like GUI frontend. I just need to make the manuals up and duplicate the disks from my master copies.
I also have the rights to the Car Sign Designer on the IBM-PC (DOS), C-64, and Coco. I have the disks, manuals, and car sign holders but need a working C-64 to test the disks. I got a c64 AND 1541 in trade, but the 1541 doesn't work and I haven't fixed it yet.
Al
