Kind of a long shot, but hey. I've had this trusty old Sparcbook 2 for awhile now and I never did manage to track down any OS media for it.

currently running a variant of SunOS 4.1.2 and the old 2.5" SCSI drives (plural) are still holding out, but I'd like to be able to revive it when they finally do go to silicon heaven. Anyone have anything for these machines? These are significantly different from the later Sparcbooks (which are considerably more Sun-compatible, hardware wise)... Thanks! Josh

I have Solaris 2.5 media and a backup of the tadpole ftp site which I will get round to putting online at some point soon. Keep pestering in the meantime - feel free to send me private mail. Mark. On 15 February 2015 at 04:20, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com> wrote: I have SunOS 4.1.3, still in the shrink wrap, if that helps. Will have > to > dig... > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Kind of a long shot, but hey. I've had this trusty old Sparcbook 2 for >> awhile now and I never did manage to track down any OS media for it. >> > It's > >> currently running a variant of SunOS 4.1.2 and the old 2.5" SCSI drives >> (plural) are still holding out, but I'd like to be able to revive it >> when >> they finally do go to silicon heaven. >> >> Anyone have anything for these machines? These are significantly >> different from the later Sparcbooks (which are considerably more >> Sun-compatible, hardware wise)... >> >> Thanks! >> Josh >> >>

My tadpole sparcbook 2 is running 4.1.3 happily. Regards, Plamen

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote: Thanks, but I think Solaris 2.5 is much too new for the Sparcbook 2 (and > I > believe that the stock Sun versions of earlier versions (like SunOS > 4.1.3) > are incompatible as well -- it's been awhile since I last tried but I > don't > think the stock kernel will boot). > > If anyone knows differently, let me know... > > Thanks, > Josh > > > On 2/15/2015 1:47 AM, Mark Wickens wrote: > > I have Solaris 2.5 media and a backup of the tadpole ftp site which I >> will >> get round to putting online at some point soon. Keep pestering in the >> meantime - feel free to send me private mail. >> >> Mark. >> >> On 15 February 2015 at 04:20, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I have SunOS 4.1.3, still in the shrink wrap, if that helps. Will >> have >> >>> to >>> dig... >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Kind of a long shot, but hey. I've had this trusty old Sparcbook 2 >>> for >>> >>>> awhile now and I never did manage to track down any OS media for it. >>>> >>>> It's >>> >>> currently running a variant of SunOS 4.1.2 and the old 2.5" SCSI >>>> drives >>>> (plural) are still holding out, but I'd like to be able to revive it >>>> when >>>> they finally do go to silicon heaven. >>>> >>>> Anyone have anything for these machines? These are significantly >>>> different from the later Sparcbooks (which are considerably more >>>> Sun-compatible, hardware wise)... >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> Josh >>>> >>>> >>>>