[rescue] Old SunOS

[Kevin Loch]

Since sun2 supported VME scsi, they could boot off of any
scsi tape drive right?  Using a modern scsi tape drive
to install from would be really useful in that case.

This excerpt from the faq is interesting:

"I have SunOS 2.0, 2.2 (upgrade from 2.0), 3.2, 3.4 (upgrade from
3.2), 3.5, 4.0, and 4.0.3 for Sun-2's. If you have SunOS 1.x on QIC-11
(20M) cartridge tapes, I would like to get a copy. If you need boot
tapes in QIC-11 (20M) format, I can provide the version (2.x or 3.x) of
your choice for the cost of tapes and shipping. The copies of SunOS 4.x
that I have are on QIC-24 (60M) tapes. So far, I have not been able to
install 4.x on my 2/120's for various reasons; even with a ROM version
which can boot from a QIC-24 drive, something fails (boot error, no disk
formatter, miniroot won't boot, whatever)."

Has anyone else experimented with this?  Even if certain machines require
certain drives, it would still be a good idea to have the tape images
on a server for preservation.

btw JWB, if you already have images of all those versions on disk, let
me know how I can get them and I'll put them online.

KL

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On June 18, laz at moaa.org wrote:
> > No, The sun 2 series is a mbus and 68010 chip based machine, while
> > the 3's were 68030 and 68040 (sun 3x) based.
>
>   [oops] Except for the Sun2s that used VME..
>
>       -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire                       "*BURRRP!*  Mmm...tastes like cannoli,
> St. Petersburg, FL                    smells like garlic!" -Sridhar
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue