[SPARCbook] Installing patches for Solaris 2.6

[Ken Hansen]

Mike N. has the cable needed to attach your SPARCbook to an AUI transciever -
write to him at sales at twmaster.com (or, see www.twmaster.com)...

You could use the modem in a PPP connection - you should even be able to use
any "regular" (non-Win) modem either hanging off a serial port or in a
PCMCIA slot.

Do you have a PCMCIA drive and PCMCIA adapter on your Win2K box or another
laptop on your LAN?

Connectivity would make this process easier...

You could even try and scrounge a 3Com 3c589c PCMCIA card and use that (it is
supported under Solaris on the SPARCbook)... (They seem to run under $20 in
most cases)

HTH,

Ken

Rodolfo Segleau wrote:

> I've got them as BINs, of course, if not I would have to kick myself twice.
> I can't FTP from my SB yet since I don't have a way to get on to the LAN
> yet. I've really been thinking of splicing a MiniDin cable for my Ricochet
> and use it on my SB.
>
> I'm not sure that changing the filename should damage the tar file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rodolfo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Ken Hansen
> Sent: 17 July 2001 10:45 PM
> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Installing patches for Solaris 2.6
>
> Um, aside from the burning, that is how I got the patches on my machine
> (used Netscape
> on Win2K to downlaod the patch cluster, then FTPed it over to my laptop.
>
> I bet you are not downloading the patch cluster as a "binary" file onto the
> WIn2K
> box...
>
> If you are, then I suggest you try what I did and simply FTP the file onto
> the
> SPARCbook.
>
> I suspect there is some option you need to set (rockridge?) to properly
> handle long
> file names...
>
> Not sure,
>
> Sorry,
>
> Ken
>
> Rodolfo Segleau wrote:
>
> > Hey Guys!
> >
> >         A quick question and I know I've got to be doing something wrong,
> but can't
> > figure it out. I can't install any of the tadpole patches. Each time I
> try,
> > it comes back and says "Directory Checksum Error". Any one know how to fix
> > this?
> >         BTW, is there a problem with downloading them in a Win2k machine
> and
> > burning them with Adaptec CD 4?