Tadpole Sparcbook 2 OS media...

Plamen Mihaylov plamenspam at afterpeople.com
Mon Feb 16 02:18:38 CST 2015


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
>>>>
>>>>
>


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