19 Jul
2014
19 Jul
'14
10:48 a.m.
I have a copy of Solaris 7 (8/99) for Sparc if you're still looking...
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alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Baigar" <erik at
baigar.de>
To: "Jerry Kemp" <other at oryx.cc>
Cc: cctech at classiccmp.org
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 6:43:46 AM
Subject: Re: Solaris 8 Sparc
Hi Jim, Hi Jerry,
I have two Tadpoles running Solaris 2.6 (a SparcBook 3 and
an UltrabookII-500) and the installation required ordinary
Solaris media and some patches specific for the OS version
from Tadpole/RDI. Those contained the hardware related
drivers, power management software and a DHCP-tool. For many
years, those have been downloadable from the tadpole ftp
server, but since around 2 years the files disappeared.
Jim, what notebooks do you want to install? Do you have
an U-200 Ultrabook up and running? I think in the U-200
the machine will not boot any more if the NVRAM battery
is empty (no way to recover I fear), but this is not a
problem in the SparcBook 2 and 3...
Best regards,
Erik.
P.S. I am on vacation now and will be back in 2 weeks.
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Jerry Kemp wrote:
Hello Jim,
AFAIK, there is no separate 32 or 64 bit media. It all shipped as one
media
pack. In my observation, Solaris never had the 32-64 bit issues that I saw
on a many platforms, such as AIX and linux.
OTOH, I am more concerned with your installation target.
I don't have extensive experience with Tadpoles, but my understanding was
that those systems typically shipped with hardware specific media, specific
to the unique hardware that they would be running on.
Hope this helps,
Jerry
On 07/18/14 02:33 AM, Jim Stephens wrote:
I need an ISO if someone can spare a copy. Need
to load up a system for
some
testing.
Sparc 32 bit. media. I have a lot of intel, but low on Sparc stuff.
Also am going to give some Tadpoles a run with it, hopefully.
thanks
Jim