[rescue] Solaris for PrimePower 250?

[Ian Finder]

> Yes, that's true.
> But I was talking about how to open another shell from inside the installer.

Even on text install, after failing to acquire a target disk, the
install gracefully fails to a shell.

It really is quite easy to use :)

- IF

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Steven M Jones <smj+rescue at crash.com> wrote:
> On 04/24/2013 12:00, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>>
>> [...] but on all the installers
>>
>> from sunos4 up to solaris 8, you can simply right-click over the
>> desktop and a menu [...]
>
>
> Desktop? Menu? In the SunOS 4 installer? ISTR it was always text console for
> SunOS 4.
>
> In fact after a couple years in the working world I encountered an old
> Sun-2/150U that had SunOS 3 on it, and discovered the SunTools-based GUI
> installer, and howled because they had given up something that convenient
> for the text-only stuff on SunOS 4.
>
> --S.
>
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