28 Aug
2014
28 Aug
'14
1:36 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, jwsmobile wrote:
Has anyone successfully duplicated or archived the Sun
4.1 era Sunos CDs?
That is my benchmark of a real archive tool.
If you ever had one of those with an SS1, SS5 and an IPX and IPC all running,
when you booted the CD or inserted it after install and browsed it between
the boot code and drivers, each system would see different executables and
data for all the CD partitions. Each sun system had s different
architecture, and this CD would present a different set of data to each
system.
Duplicating that (and explaining it better than I have here) is what I'd love
to see in a CD tool.
It took me a few days of discussion in #classiccmp to get a SunOS 4.1.4 CD
image that would work. The first one I acquired had a corrupted tar file
on it, perhaps from a complication of the sort you seem to be alluding to.
Anyhow, I managed to get it booted, installed, and running under QEMU.
Poking through the innards of the CD image, I decided that the different
executables presented part came about from clever scripting -- no esoteric
CD diddling. That being said, I have never installed SunOS on real
hardware.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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