[SPARCbook] Re: SparkBook Woes

[Koyote]

Not entirely true-

2.6 5/98 (or whatever the last release disks were) DOES have the tadpole packages included with the distribution. That is how I install my sparcbooks. 


On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:37:10PM +0000, Chris Powell wrote:
> Patrick McAleavey wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> I didn't think stock Sun Solaris 7 contained Tadpole drivers for video
> and PCMCIA slots (perhaps other things too). Solaris 2.6 definitely
> does not - an installation from the Sun Solaris 2.6 CD subsequently
> requires the Tadpole drivers. Without the drivers, video is restricted
> to console only (no X).
> 
> The overheating issue may be due to older Solaris versions not having
> power management (like disc spin-down), this is now in stock Solaris.
> I'm not certain about this though (anyone?).
> 
> 
> ChrisP.
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