[SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes

[Patrick McAleavey]

Hi Thomas,

I haven't tried Solaris 8...actually I was under the impression that it 
would not run on the 3GX...but I could be mistaken. I would probably have 
difficulty attempting an install. My units have fairly small harddrives and 
Solaris 8 likes to make a big swap file when it installs...would probably 
take up a good chunk of the drive. Hmmmm...maybe a project for tomorrow.

Solaris 9 is going to holler if you don't have at least 128 MB of RAM. I 
tried it on my old Sparc 10 w/64 Megs and it wouldn't load. My units here 
vary...a few have 32 Meg and the others have 64...so that's not going to 
work.

My 5 babies are about to retire from active duty anyway...they will probably 
take up residence in our QA lab and end their days there. Two are held 
together with duct tape...covering wounds sustained in five years of 
traveling.

Good luck.

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 15:45:14 -0600 (CST)
>
>OK, I'm gonna stretch here - anyone tried Solaris 8 or even 9 on the 3GX?
>Mine is back home in Texas right now and I am in Africa, so I can't try
>it.  Anyone have any insight?  I'm going to try it unless someone has a
>good reason not to.
>
>Thanks,
>Thomas
>
>
> > 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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