7 Jun
2016
7 Jun
'16
7:32 a.m.
Hi,
I have really fond memories of this operating system (from before the
SVR4 Solaris days). It was the first UNIX I used (and I'm still a big
BSD fan).
(Not sure what the protocol is here for asking something like this so
if I run afoul of a copyright policy or something, just tell me to
stop asking and I will.)
Is there any way someone can get their hands on an install disc for
this? I have some old SPARC hardware that it would be fun to run on
if I could find the installer.
Thanks,
Bryan
7 Jun
7 Jun
10:55 a.m.
I know MemoryX in Santa Clara has at least recently had full boxed copies of SunOS 4.1.4
(aka Solaris 1.1.3) available for something like $99.
I'm unaware of whether Sun SPARC hardware carries a license for the OS with which it
shipped. Some hardware companies did that, others bound the license to the media, still
others bound it to a maintenance contract.
-- Chris
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 7, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Bryan C. Everly <bryan
at bceassociates.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have really fond memories of this operating system (from before the
SVR4 Solaris days). It was the first UNIX I used (and I'm still a big
BSD fan).
(Not sure what the protocol is here for asking something like this so
if I run afoul of a copyright policy or something, just tell me to
stop asking and I will.)
Is there any way someone can get their hands on an install disc for
this? I have some old SPARC hardware that it would be fun to run on
if I could find the installer.
Thanks,
Bryan
2:25 p.m.
tis 2016-06-07 klockan 10:55 -0700 skrev Chris Hanson:
I know MemoryX in Santa Clara has at least recently
had full boxed copies of SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.3) available for something like
$99.
I'm unaware of whether Sun SPARC hardware carries a license for the OS with which it
shipped. Some hardware companies did that, others bound the license to the media, still
others bound it to a maintenance contract.
-- Chris
SunOS : no trouble - historically "a machine" == "a license"
No patches available now.
8 Jun
8 Jun
6:08 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Stefan Skoglund (lokal anv?ndare) wrote:
tis 2016-06-07 klockan 10:55 -0700 skrev Chris
Hanson:
Check archive.org - ftp.sun.com may have been grabbed.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
I know MemoryX in Santa Clara has at least
recently had full boxed copies of SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.3) available for something
like $99.
I'm unaware of whether Sun SPARC hardware carries a license for the OS with which it
shipped. Some hardware companies did that, others bound the license to the media, still
others bound it to a maintenance contract.
-- Chris
SunOS : no trouble - historically "a machine" == "a license"
No patches available now. 
10:46 a.m.
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4 iso image is available at
https://winworldpc.com/download/3E59C28A-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:08 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Stefan Skoglund (lokal anv?ndare)
wrote:
tis 2016-06-07 klockan 10:55 -0700 skrev Chris Hanson:
Check archive.org - ftp.sun.com may have been grabbed.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
I know MemoryX in Santa Clara has at least
recently had full boxed
copies of SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.3) available for something like $99.
I'm unaware of whether Sun SPARC hardware carries a license for the OS
with which it shipped. Some hardware companies did that, others bound the
license to the media, still others bound it to a maintenance contract.
-- Chris
SunOS : no trouble - historically "a machine" == "a license"
No patches available now.
12:57 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4 iso image is available at
https://winworldpc.com/download/3E59C28A-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599
Methinks it's bogus. It's only 40.23MB in size on that site. I have the
ISO on my file server at home and that's not even close:
$ du -h *
315M sunos414_sparc_1994.iso
-Swift
1:04 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
The file is compressed, and since everything on the CD is basically
uncompressed tar archives, it compresses quite well.
It uncompresses to an ISO of 329,297,920 bytes and the ISO contains what
looks like a valid installation.
- Josh
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4 iso image is available at
https://winworldpc.com/download/3E59C28A-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599
Methinks it's bogus. It's only 40.23MB in size on that site. I have the
ISO on my file server at home and that's not even close:
$ du -h *
315M sunos414_sparc_1994.iso
-Swift
1:06 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
wrote:
Addendum: "everything on the CD is basically uncompressed tar archives
*and empty space*"
- Josh
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
The file is compressed, and since everything on the CD is basically
uncompressed tar archives, it compresses quite well.
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4 iso image is available at
https://winworldpc.com/download/3E59C28A-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599
Methinks it's bogus. It's only 40.23MB in size on that site. I have the
ISO on my file server at home and that's not even close:
$ du -h *
315M sunos414_sparc_1994.iso
It uncompresses to an ISO of 329,297,920 bytes and the ISO contains what
looks like a valid installation.
- Josh
-Swift
1:11 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Josh Dersch
<derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
Now if anyone can dig up the patches I'll be happy.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
wrote:
Addendum: "everything on the CD is basically uncompressed tar archives
*and empty space*"
- Josh
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
The file is compressed, and since everything on the CD is basically
uncompressed tar archives, it compresses quite well.
SunOS 4.1.4 sun4 iso image is available at
https://winworldpc.com/download/3E59C28A-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599
Methinks it's bogus. It's only 40.23MB in size on that site. I have the
ISO on my file server at home and that's not even close:
$ du -h *
315M sunos414_sparc_1994.iso
It uncompresses to an ISO of 329,297,920 bytes and the ISO contains what
looks like a valid installation.
- Josh
7:51 p.m.
* On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:32:09AM -0400, Bryan C. Everly <bryan at
bceassociates.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have really fond memories of this operating system (from before the
SVR4 Solaris days). It was the first UNIX I used (and I'm still a big
BSD fan).
(Not sure what the protocol is here for asking something like this so
if I run afoul of a copyright policy or something, just tell me to
stop asking and I will.)
Is there any way someone can get their hands on an install disc for
this? I have some old SPARC hardware that it would be fun to run on
if I could find the installer.
Thanks,
Bryan
Hi Bryan,
I don't suppose anyone will be too upset if I share my SunOS stuff
on the web.
For now I've put it at:
http://www.loomcom.com/SunOS
You'll probably want SunOS-4.1.4.iso.gz, which should expand to
about 380MB or so. Patches are under sunos_414_patches
If you have a Sun3, you can grab SunOS-4.1.3_U1B.iso.gz.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
seth at loomcom.com
10:50 p.m.
On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Seth Morabito <lists at
loomcom.com> wrote:
If you have a Sun3, you can grab SunOS-4.1.3_U1B.iso.gz.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
seth at loomcom.com <mailto:seth at loomcom.com>
There?s also a decent SunOS collection for Sun3/3x available on the Sun3/3x archive at:
https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml
<https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml>
9 Jun
9 Jun
9:43 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Pete Plank <nekonoko at me.com> wrote:
Thanks to both of you!
--
Eric Christopherson
On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Seth Morabito
<lists at loomcom.com> wrote:
If you have a Sun3, you can grab SunOS-4.1.3_U1B.iso.gz.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
seth at loomcom.com <mailto:seth at loomcom.com>
There?s also a decent SunOS collection for Sun3/3x available on the
Sun3/3x archive at: https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml <
https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml>
9:59 a.m.
Thanks all!
Thanks,
Bryan
On Jun 9, 2016, at 12:43 PM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Pete Plank
<nekonoko at me.com> wrote:
Thanks to both of you!
--
Eric Christopherson On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Seth Morabito
<lists at loomcom.com> wrote:
If you have a Sun3, you can grab SunOS-4.1.3_U1B.iso.gz.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
seth at loomcom.com <mailto:seth at loomcom.com>
There?s also a decent SunOS collection for Sun3/3x available on the
Sun3/3x archive at: https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml <
https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml> 
11:01 a.m.
I guess now I'm going to have to add my prototype Sparc (no model number,
but looks like a 1) pizza box to the stack of machines to run again.
Thanks
-pete
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Eric Christopherson <
echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Pete Plank
<nekonoko at me.com> wrote:
Thanks to both of you!
--
Eric Christopherson
On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Seth Morabito
<lists at loomcom.com> wrote:
If you have a Sun3, you can grab SunOS-4.1.3_U1B.iso.gz.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
seth at loomcom.com <mailto:seth at loomcom.com>
There?s also a decent SunOS collection for Sun3/3x available on the
Sun3/3x archive at: https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml <
https://www.sun3arc.org/BootTapes/index.phtml>
11:16 a.m.
This all makes me want to try bringing up a modern compiler on SunOS 4.1.4 on my
SPARCstation 20 again.
The closest I got was bringing up GCC 2.95.3 using the system compiler, I couldn?t manage
to build GCC 3.3 or 4.2.1 for SunOS. (For legal reasons I can?t really go near GPLv3
developer tools.)
Maybe it?s a bit too much of a lost cause, and I should stick to Solaris 8. That?d let me
install the upgraded CPUs too. And I could probably build LLVM/clang on Linux as
sparcv8/sun4m cross-compiler much more easily too...
-- Chris
11:48 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Chris Hanson wrote:
The closest I got was bringing up GCC 2.95.3 using the
system compiler,
I couldn?t manage to build GCC 3.3 or 4.2.1 for SunOS. (For legal
reasons I can?t really go near GPLv3 developer tools.)
Last time I tried was around gcc v4.7 and it failed miserably with a bunch
of linker errors. I have Sun's compiler on there, but it's not even C99
compliant and that pisses off gcc something fierce these days. So, one
would probably have to built it up stepwise, and maybe grab GNU binutils
and see if their linker has any better luck. I ran out of steam and didn't
try to go that far.
-Swift
15 Jun
15 Jun
11:06 a.m.
Thanks for the patches / images Seth...
I can verify that SunOS 4.1.4 image from winworld, works - I have it installed on my
SparcStation20. The only thing that failed to extract/install properly was OpenWindows.
Now, there were two images on the site, and I haven't tried the second image.
cheers
--
alex
11:40 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, azd30 wrote:
Thanks for the patches / images Seth... I can verify
that SunOS 4.1.4
image from winworld, works - I have it installed on my SparcStation20.
The only thing that failed to extract/install properly was OpenWindows.
Now, there were two images on the site, and I haven't tried the second
image.
Thanks for reporting back! Now we know.
-Swift
9 Jun
9 Jun
7:01 a.m.
I don't suppose anyone will be too upset if I
share my SunOS stuff
on the web.
For now I've put it at:
http://www.loomcom.com/SunOS
You'll probably want SunOS-4.1.4.iso.gz, which should expand to
about 380MB or so. Patches are under sunos_414_patches
Many thanks for putting the patches up, Seth. My OS/MP Solbourne thanks you.
I'm going to go through these and see what can cleanly apply to OS/MP, but
my thinking is that most of them should work.
--
------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com
-- Think! It ain't illegal yet! -- Funkadelic ---------------------------------
3112
days inactive
3120
days old
18 comments
13 participants
participants (13)
-
azd30＠telus.net -
bryan＠bceassociates.com -
cmhanson＠eschatologist.net -
derschjo＠gmail.com -
echristopherson＠gmail.com -
geneb＠deltasoft.com -
lists＠loomcom.com -
nekonoko＠me.com -
pete＠petelancashire.com -
plamenspam＠afterpeople.com -
spectre＠floodgap.com -
stefan.skoglund＠agj.net -
swiftgriggs＠gmail.com