[SunRescue] SunPC crashes Solaris

[Tim Chong]

SunPC does not support any OS after Solaris 2.6! It will not work on 
Solaris 7 or later (in 32 nor 64 bit mode)

On Sunday, April 29, 2001, at 01:01  AM, rescue-request at sunhelp.org 
wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:27:52 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Brian P. Hinz" <bhinz at chipmunk.nsc.com>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org, rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] SunPC crashes Solaris
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to install a SunPC SBUS card in a SPARC 5  running Solaris 
> 7. After
> installing SunPC 4.1, and patch 102924-26 the sunpc software comes up 
> and warns
> that no floppy is detected (this box is floppy-less). The SunPC users 
> guide says
> to just remove the mapping using the Hard Disk Editor. I tried this and
> immediately the system dumps. Patch 105557-01 (SunPC 4.2 upgrade) 
> claims to fix
> this but when I try to install it I get the following message:
>
> # patchadd -M . 105557-01
>
> Checking installed patches...
> One or more patch packages included in
> 105557-01 are not installed on this system.
>
> Patchadd is terminating.
>
> WTF?  Anyone else know how to get this little bastige to work?
>
> thanks,
> -brian