[rescue] Unpopular speech and Screwy SparcStation LX

[Dave McGuire]

On February 23, Arthur Wouk wrote:
> >From: "Joshua Johnston" <flagg at midmaine.com>
> >Subject: [rescue] Unpopular speech and Screwy SparcStation LX
> >
> ...
> >Speaking of purposes, I keep running into a rather irritating issue at
> >the moment.  I'm trying to resurrect a SparcStation LX I won on eBay,
> >and it's giving me some rather distressing problems. For one, I can't
> >seem to get an installation on it.  The seller sent me (for a few extra
> >bucks) a set of Solaris 8 install CD's, but burned them wrong.  I can't
> 
> Solaris 8 don't go on LX. Solaris 2.7 is the last one supporting tht
> architecture (4c?) same for sparc2.

  The LX and Classic are sun4m, not sun4c...they're based on
MicroSPARC-I processors.  Solaris8 should run on them.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf