4 Sep
2011
4 Sep
'11
4:49 p.m.
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 14:54 -0400, Phil Budne wrote:
(I had privately written I thought I had 4.1.3U1).
I did two better than 4.1.3U1, and found "Solaris 1.0.1" (aka SunOS
4.1.2 + OW2), but it's SPARC only. It looks like 4.1.1U1 was the last
for Sun3 (and Sun2 was supported in 4.0.3, tho I'm sure it was AWFUL
slow!!)!
Looks like the ingredients (including 4.1.1U1) are available at:
http://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml
Net boot docs at:
http://sites.inka.de/pcde/site/documentation_files/sunos_network_boot.html
And information about CD vs tape layout (Appendix A):
http://www.sun3zoo.de/en/install.html (But I imagine making a bootable
CD would produce many coasters first).
I'd probably do a diskless boot, format (partition) and dd the
miniroot in, and do a disk install from there (or just keep it diskless).
I'm actually in the process of doing this with my sun 3/60 and 4.1.1. I
had it on there and upgraded to 4.1.1U1 but the 20 year old disk died :(
So I'm doing with a different disk this time.
I've written some documentation for myself to netboot and then
netinstall from a centos server. If anyone is interested, I can post
it. To do the netinstall rsh has to be enabled and the cdrom data has
to be located at /usr/etc/install/tar on the server machine.
Brian
Good luck!
Phil
BTW I have a complete SunOS 4.0 doc set (in boxes), with 4.0.3 update,
and a 4.1.2 install manual free to anyone who pays shippping, and will
scan them, and make them available for free!
I also have a mess of SPARC equipment I saved from the dumpster: two
SS10, an SS4 and an SS5 (one with bad power supply) and a bunch of
"lunchbox" systems (IPC, IPX, Classic, LX), a Sun QIC drive, and a
mess of SCSI cables.