Tadpole Sparcbook 2 OS media...

[Josh Dersch]

On 2/16/2015 12:18 AM, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
> My tadpole sparcbook 2 is running  4.1.3 happily.
>
> Regards,
> Plamen

Was that installed from standard Sun distribution media?

Thanks,
Josh

>
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>