[SunRescue] Sunos 3.5 on OLDEN sun3toyz

[Tom Schmidt]

BSD Bob wrote:
> 
> > So just daisy chain the SCSI disk onto the SCSi bus, and have the tape
> > drive at the end of the chain with a terminator.
> 
> That is pretty much what I have in the 3/260 crate.

For the 3/260, the controller address on the mainbus is 200000.
This is step 5 on my procedure.  The 3/60 uses address 140000.

> 
> The drive is a small 3.5 inch hung sideways and backwards so it can butt
> up to the stub of the cable header where it used to connect to the md
> board.  Just wish there were more cable there....

That should work.

> 
> > Since your disk is already formatted and partitioned, you should be able
> > to just use steps 1 and 2, and then skip to step 15 in my procedure I sent
> > yesterday, which will take you directly to installing the mini-UNIX on
> > the swap partition.
> 
> That I will do.  Tonight it should whirr dinosaur style.....(:+}}...
> 
> What fortran is that in the Sunos 3.5 tapes, F77 or F66?

F77

> One of my main reasons for trying it is to resurrect some ancient
> Fortran stuff for the fun of it.  Fortran came along on the 3.5 set.
> 
> What c compiler is that in the 3.5 tapes, pcc or sun's compiler?

It was Sun's C compiler.  One main difference in the SunOS 3.X and
SunOS 4.X compilers was that SunOS 4.X introduced dynamic libraries.
All SunOS 3.X binaries are statically linked.  Most binaries built on
3.X would run on 4.X as long as they didn't have kernel dependencies.

> 
> Is the 3.5 basically a 4.2/4.3BSD port, or did sun do a lot to it?

It was a BSD 4.2 flavor of UNIX similar to SunOS 4.X.

> 
> Many Thanks!
> 
> Bob
> 
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You're welcome.  I ran SunOS 3.5 on several Sun3 machines for years,
finally phasing out the last one about a year ago.  I have been working
with Sun machines since SunOS 3.2 on Sun2 systems.  Now that was a
screamer
of a system! 

Tom
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