[SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes

[Patrick McAleavey]

Hi Thomas,

Just some follow up...we were using our 3GXs to teach the Unix version of 
our software. We had five (5) units that were pretty much steady on the 
road. I had to use the Sun Solaris 7 CDs because my predecessor had hidden 
the Tadpole disks away and nobody knew where...I found them after about six 
months. So for that time period the units ran on the straight Sun software. 
Our road classes usually run a week at a time so the laptops would be on 24 
hours a day for that time period. Never ran into any overheating 
problems...although I have heard rumors about that issue. Actually my 
biggest problem was getting the instructors to shut down the machines 
properly (and students changing the root password...arrrghh).

Hope this helps.

Pat






>From: thomas.cameron at CameronTech.com
>Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes
>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:49:23 -0600 (CST)
>
>Has anyone else loaded Solaris 7 on a 3GX?  I heard that there were
>serious problems doing this - like overheating or something.
>
>Thomas
>
> > I have used Sun's Solaris 7 CDs to do installs on the 3GX. The only
> > driver I  found I had to download from Tadpole was one for switching to
> > an external  video display...everything else worked like a charm.
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