[rescue] RE:SunPC (the SBUS one)

[Ken Hansen]

I'm not familiar with the drive-size limitations, but I will probably put Solaris 2.6 on my SS/20 and drop the SunPC card in there, just out of curiousity...

I am really looking forward to firing up my SunPCi card (Thanks Mike N.!) - it has the 400 MHz CPU on it, and RAMis *dirt* cheap... I downloaded the SunPCi 1.3 software (the final release, as I understand it) and will try and get it running this weekend...

BTW, I installed the Sun Companion CD for Solaris 8 (SPARC), and was suprised that it just goes and installs everything by default - that was a bit aggressive, IMHO. I thought i woul dhave to pick out packages one by one to install... I'll have to try cdrecord with my old Plextor CD-R drive...

This could turn out to be a fun weekend, and for those interested, yes, I am currently crunching SETI packets on it until I get it up to snuff as a desk-top replacement with my big 21" screen!

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-request at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-request at sunhelp.org]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:43 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: rescue digest, Vol 1 #1702 - 18 msgs

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Message: 18
From: "G W Adkins" <gwadkins at erols.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Q: SunPC (SBUS) card - it has no slot cover...
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:41:29 -0400
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

> > Also, Solaris 2.6 is the last release of Solaris that supported that
> > card, right?
>
> Yup (unless anyone has managed to hack something?).

2.6 is the latest OS which supported it officially.  I've been meaning to
try the 2.6 -> patch -> SunPC -> patch -> 2.7 upgrade trick, but haven't
gotten around to it.

BTW, if you install SunPC 4.2, you NEED to patch it with the latest SunPC
patch to be found under the Solaris 2.6 patches.  It's not part of the big
cluster...  It makes SunPC run MUCH better.  (and increases drive size from
128M to 512M).