8 Feb
1998
8 Feb
'98
7:41 a.m.
At 09:27 am 2/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
On 06 Feb 1998 20:53:16 -0800, Frank McConnell
<fmc(a)reanimators.org> wrote:
Actually, you may want to set the disk to ID 3. SunOS does this weird
swapping of ID 0 and ID 3. Somebody posted the historical reason a while
back to comp.sys.sun.hardware, but I believe it had to to with 3 being the
likely address of another sort of device.
>Given that this is a Sun 3, I would re-set
them for disk ID = 0 and
tape ID = 4. At that point, you should be able to get to
the monitor
prompt by pressing L1-A (hold L1, press A) while it's trying to boot
from the network (or before) and typing "b sd(0,0,0)" to get it to
boot from disk, or "b st(0,0,0)" to get it to boot from tape. Oh yeah,
you need to press return after that ")", unless you want to pass some
arguments to the boot, in which case you should type them before you
press return (e.g. "b sd(0,0,0) -s" to boot single-user mode).<< I don't have a Sun keyboard or mouse, so what
are the
terminal-equivalent keys for L1?
BREAK
I figured this one out. I've set the EEPROM for
polling. I don't even
know what system is on the hard drive, though.
Well, the last one for the Sun3 was 4.1.1. With a 3/50, you may actually
want to stay with an older OS, say 3.5.
One thing you may want to find a a 68882 math co-processor chip for it.
IIRC, they were not standard, but I do recall bumping into a couple of
things that *really* wanted it (X11 under Mach, for instance).
<<<John>>>