[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3GX -Upgrade

[Rodolfo Segleau]

Dennis, 

There are two ways to purchase the media and the license.
For the media you can either go through SUN (if they still
have it) or go through eBay. I bought my media off of eBay,
and got the hobbyist license through Sun. I am not sure if
Tadpole is still supporting and selling the license, but
their cost is a full commercial license. You can get the
Solaris 2.6 5/9? (I don't remember the exact year, and my
CDs aren't with me) and apply the Tadpole patches and then
the SUN patches. But this won't help you much since you need
Solaris 2.7. 
You might want to see if SUN still has a hobbyist license
for 2.7 and see if you can get the media at from Tadpole at
a cheaper price, but I am not sure they'll allow you to do
this. You can't use the SUN official release of 2.7, since
Tadpole has not release their specific packages for 2.7 on
their FTP, unless this has changed. Any one have an update
on this from Tadpole?

Cheers, 

Rodolfo



On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:18:11 -0400
 "Dennis Hayes" <dennis.hayes at nexsi.com> wrote:
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> Rodolfo,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The application that I am planning to install requires
> Solaris 2.7 software.
> The system is currently loaded with Solaris 2.6, but I
> don't had the CD-ROM
> for
> Solaris 2.6 software.
> 
> I need Solaris CD-ROM to install OS on new HD.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org
> [mailto:sparcbook-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Rodolfo Segleau
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:55 AM
> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3GX -Upgrade
> 
> 
> Dennis,
> 
> The hard drive issue is not as bad as you might think.
> The
> 1.2GB drive on the 3GX can be switched out for an IDE
> notebook drive (2.5" standard), but you will need to
> purchase also an IDE to SCSI converter. It's been awhile
> since this topic was actively brought up, but IIRC a
> couple
> of guys here did it with an IBM notebook drive.
> As for Solaris 2.7, unles you're willing to drop the
> ~$400
> for the Tadpole distribution, then you should be content
> with 2.6. Please note that NCD (GUI) packages were taken
> out
> from Tadpole's version of Solaris after 2.5.1. Tadpole
> has
> not released the Sparcbook specific patches for Solaris
> 2.6,
> so unless your applications *require* 2.7, I would
> recommend
> to stay with 2.6.
> As for the memory, if you just subscribed to this list,
> then
> you have the posts about memory expansion. Officially,
> Tadpole supported upto 64MB (which is what I have on my
> 3XP)
> with standard SIMMs and 128MB with customised SIMMs.
> Refer
> to Hugo's FAQ on sunhelp.org about this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Rodolfo
> 
> - There are some that call me . . . . Tim.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:35:15 -0400
>  "Dennis Hayes" <dennis.hayes at nexsi.com> wrote:
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> > Group,
> >
> > Hello, I am new to this group.
> >
> > Need your assistance. I have a Sparcbook 3GX that I
> want
> > to upgrade
> > to Solaris 2.7 software. Before I perform the OS
> upgrade
> > I need/want to
> > upgrade my HD from 1.2G to 10G  system.
> >
> > Question:
> > (1) Where can I purchase 10G IDE HD for 3GX system?
> > Tadpole price is
> > expensive. If someone
> > installed different vendor HD, what issues or problems?
> > (2) Where can I purchase Solaris 2.7 for Sparcbook.
> Again
> > Tadpole too
> > expensive.
> > (3)I would like to upgrade from 128M memory to 512M or
> > better 1G memory.
> > Where can I
> > purchase compatible memory for 3GX? Are there any known
> > issues that I need
> > to be aware of?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dennis
> >
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