[rescue] Looking for Prestoserve 2.3 for SunOS 4.x sun4c

[Richard]

Success!!

Big thank you to everyone for the support and to Dave and Mark for digging out
what the have. I now have 2.4.0 working under sunos4.1.3u1 sub4c. Have run out
of time to go to 2.4.2 today but it is at least now being
recognised...surprise surprise the batteries are flat.

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For the astute amongst us you will see that the SS2 prom needs to be
replaced....it's on order p


Cheers

Richard

Sent from my iPhone

> On 10 Sep 2017, at 08:06, Richard <ejb at trick-1.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark
>
> Fantastic, will down load and give it a go today.
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 10 Sep 2017, at 05:23, Mark G Thomas <Mark at Misty.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is what I found. It looks to me like 2.4.0 is good for SunOS-4.x on
>> sun4c hardware, which is what I remember running it on years ago.
>>
>> http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/presto240.tar.gz
>>
>> (Also grab this) http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/presto242.tar.gz
>>
>> From presto240/presto_chango:
>> #
>> arch=sun4c
>> release=2.4
>> sys_patch=0
>> ....
>> release_msg=\
>> "${productname} release ${release} requires a SunOS release based on
4.[01]."
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:49:26PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>> Well shit, I'm sorry about that.  I wasn't aware that this
>>> distribution was sun4 only. :-(  That sucks for me as well, because I
>>> have a couple of Sbus Prestoserve cards around here somewhere.
>>>
>>> If you do manage to find the sun4c distribution, please share?
>>>
>>>         Thanks,
>>>         -Dave
>>>
>>>> On 08/31/2017 08:52 PM, Richard wrote:
>>>> Hi Dave
>>>>
>>>> Thanks you again for putting that up. Have gone to install but it looks
>>>> like it is a sun4 version and not sun4c....
>>>>
>>>> ss2-le0# ./presto_chango
>>>>       Prestoserve(TM) - sun4 Release 2.2
>>>> Copyright (c) 1990 by Legato Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>>> Machine `ss2-le0' is type `sun4c', not `sun4' as expected.
>>>> ss2-le0#
>>>>
>>>> Not to be deterred (some dusty memories coming back - I recall there was
>>>> trick to doing the original install back in the day) I modify the
>>>> arch=sun4 to sun4c at the top of presto_chango (there are also
>>>> #ifdef=sun4c in the presto_chango file so I was hopeful)
>>>>
>>>> I get the following (which I suppose I really should have expected given
>>>> it had already told me it was for Sun4 (i.e. VME based sun4 not an Sbus
>>>> sun4c - was worth a try)
>>>>
>>>> <....>
>>>> cp prestotool /usr/bin/prestotool
>>>> cp presto /usr/etc/presto
>>>> cp prestoctl_svc /usr/etc/prestoctl_svc
>>>> cp prestoctl.x /usr/include/rpcsvc/prestoctl.x
>>>> cp prestoctl.h /usr/include/rpcsvc/prestoctl.h
>>>> cp prestoioctl.h /usr/include/sundev/prestoioctl.h
>>>> cp presto_chango /usr/etc/presto_chango
>>>> Config and make a Presto-ized kernel [yes]? yes
>>>> System name in /sys/sun4c/conf to config [GENERIC]? SS2
>>>> cp /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2 /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2.prepresto
>>>> echo "device            ps0 at vme16d16 ? csr 0x4c00
>>>> device          pr0 at vme24d32 ? csr 0x800000" >> /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2
>>>>   * * * Config'ing /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2
>>>> (cd /sys/sun4c/conf; config SS2)
>>>> config: line 231: wrong machine type for vme16d16
>>>> config: line 231: no vme16d16's to wildcard
>>>> ./presto_chango: 618 Memory fault - core dumped
>>>> presto_chango:  unexpected return code 139
>>>> ss2-le0#
>>>>
>>>> I changed the vme reference to sbus in the kernel config but config told
>>>> me that "sun4c doesn't have mb_device structures."...I suppose I could
>>>> keep hacking away but I am picking there will be more issues and it may
>>>> not work as expected. Anyway config completed and so did the build of
>>>> the kernel..but not unexpectedly it errors on boot as not being able to
>>>> find the device pr0 (have checked and the /dev/pr0 exists) .
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know the next step for this version or have a sun4c version of
>>>> prestoserve 2.3 or earlier ?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 08:36 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I've put it up at:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.neurotica.com/misc/prestoserve-2.2.tar.gz.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know when you have the file.
>>>>>
>>>>>           -Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 08/31/2017 05:11 PM, Richard wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That would be fantastic and would be a great start. Yes please!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Richard
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 31 Aug 2017, at 09:58, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 08/30/2017 05:20 PM, Richard wrote:
>>>>>>>> My google fu is letting me down and for the life of me I cannot find
>>>>>>>> prestoserve 2.3 for SunOS 4.x Sun4c I thought I had it but cannot
find
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> media or image. Frustratingly I have a the CD for prestoserver 2.4.1
>>>>>>>> (anyone need that?)
>>>>>>>> which would work great if I wanted to run Solaris 2.x on my SS2
(which I
>>>>>>>> don't).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have 2.2, is that close enough?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          -Dave
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>>>>>> New Kensington, PA
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>>>> New Kensington, PA
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>> New Kensington, PA
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>>
>> --
>> Mark G. Thomas (Mark at Misty.com), KC3DRE
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