16 Feb
1999
16 Feb
'99
12:36 a.m.
Does anyone
have 4.0.3 that they could supply to me in some form? Or is
there a better alternative for sun 2's with low ram (sun 1/100U is
apparently very hardware equivalent to the earliest sun 2's, at least
from a software perspective). Perhaps there is a X11 version that might
run acceptably from a sun with 2Meg of ram.
The Sun 1/100U does not have any way to connect peripherals such as
hard drives, so the unit will have to be booted from the network.
I guess its almost time for me to brush up on tftp protocol, assuming
I can find some OS to run on this computer.
I might be able to do some arm twisting and get a SunOS 0.98 tape. A guy I
know (and first generation Sun head) has a working machine he picked up at
a hamfest a few years ago.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net