[SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes

[Koyote]

solaris 9 easily installs on my 3gx/128.

the video driver of course does not work, so there is no dispay. I haven't tried power management or checked heat over time, nor pcmci and sound.......


,On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:40:40PM +0000, Patrick McAleavey wrote:
> 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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