Surprised you are not yet sorted. Try asking this guy:- http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/sun_unix.html he may have a copy Dave -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Kemp Sent: 18 July 2014 21:33 To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Solaris 8 Sparc Hello Jim, AFAIK, there is no separate 32 or 64 bit media. It all shipped as one media pack. In my observation, Solaris never had the 32-64 bit issues that I saw on a many platforms, such as AIX and linux. OTOH, I am more concerned with your installation target. I don't have extensive experience with Tadpoles, but my understanding was that those systems typically shipped with hardware specific media, specific to the unique hardware that they would be running on. Hope this helps, Jerry On 07/18/14 02:33 AM, Jim Stephens wrote:

Hi Jim, Hi Jerry, I have two Tadpoles running Solaris 2.6 (a SparcBook 3 and an UltrabookII-500) and the installation required ordinary Solaris media and some patches specific for the OS version drivers, power management software and a DHCP-tool. For many years, those have been downloadable from the tadpole ftp server, but since around 2 years the files disappeared. Jim, what notebooks do you want to install? Do you have an U-200 Ultrabook up and running? I think in the U-200 the machine will not boot any more if the NVRAM battery is empty (no way to recover I fear), but this is not a problem in the SparcBook 2 and 3... Best regards, Erik. P.S. I am on vacation now and will be back in 2 weeks. On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Jerry Kemp wrote:

Thanks much to all who have responded to the quest for media. I am now hopefully in possession of ISO images that will install. I bought two cheap tadpoles off of a fellow in MD who keeps coughing up and listing them. They were sold as is with defects for cheap, which is always a way to suck me into a new project. I am hoping one of these or one of my IPC's will allow a small Sparc system to run online. The alternative is to run the Ultra 5 I have, and I should probably give in to that, but these are a different earlier architecture and interesting for that reason. I will be asking more on tadpole issues sometime soon. http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2014/06/sparcbook3gx-and-sparcbook-3000xt-b… I have a Sparcbook 3 which arrived yesterday. There is another 3tx on the way to arrive next week. All work but have no media. Two have batteries which I hope may serve are rebuild articles for a local battery pack rebuild operation if I get really brave. I see that to hook up physical exernal SCSI I need an adapter for the weird square high density connector to probably the 50 pin variety. If anyone here knows of a source or has spares, I'd love to get them. I found a very nice and friendly (and pretty dead) mailing list, and harrassed a member (He may be on here too) who mentioned having some spares laying about. I did get a positive response, but at this time I'd take all the disk carriers and oddball disks anyone might spare to get at least one or two for these to make a proper portable unit. I appreciate all the help from the list, and will try to respond to all the offline messages. thanks to all Jim On 7/19/2014 6:43 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: