[SunRescue] SunOS 4.1.1 (3/3x)

[me]

i do have a copy of the 4.1.1 that has the sun3 track on it ...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Creasey" <sammy at oh.verio.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] SunOS 4.1.1 (3/3x)


>
> So, there's been a bit of talk lately about the fact that sun no longer
> seems to care where one gets their install media for sun 3/3x machines...
> makes sense, why bother.
>
> Deciding that I'd like to try SunOS on one of the 4 3/3x boxes around here
> (they all run linux now), and discovered that this is *extremely*
> difficult to do without an ancient QIC tape drive.
>
> I don't have one of these drives.
>
> I *never* want to own one of these drives.
>
> But people distribute the tape images freely (thanks to the glorious,
> glorious sun3/3x archive).
>
> And people mention 3/3x boot/install cdroms.
>
> So, erm..  Anyone who has one of these magical CD's think it would be
> possible to obtain images of the data tracks on there?  I wanna try to
> gather as much of this stuff as possible also to try to make it available
> for FTP from this side of the Atlantic, once I've figured out how to
> actually install at all....
>
> The 3/80 has boot prom 3.0.2 which is listed as being able to boot CD's.
>
> -- Sam
>
>
> Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected our generation
as
> kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening
to
> repetitive music.
>         -- Unknown
>
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