[SPARCbook] reviving a 3gx

[Thomas Cameron]

I did a fresh install on my 3GX quite a while ago and the laptop has been
sitting on a shelf ever since.  Lemme fire it up and see if I snarfed the
updates...  Back on the list tommorrow.
--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com/
(512) 454-3200
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sunder" <sunder at sunder.net>
To: "For owners of Tadpole/RDI's SPARCbook series of portable Sun-compatible
computer systems." <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] reviving a 3gx


> You'll need to go to Solaris 2.6 and download the packages + patches from
> tadpole - uh, correction, looks like ftp.tadpole.com is no longer
> anonymously accessible.
>
> If you don't have the Solaris 2.5.1 Tadpole packages, you're SOL.  It
> looks like 2.6 packages are no more also...  anyone got a mirror up
> somewhere?
>
>
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>
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>
> > Hello fellow tadpolers,
> >     I have a dead 3gx that I am trying to restore. The machine was
working
> > just fine, but the HD decided to kiss itself bye bye....
> >
> >     I installed a new HD and set up solaris 2.5.1 from Sun media (this
> > machine came to me without the Tadpole media) and things are working
fine -
> > except that I cannot get CDE to work.
> >
> >     I am aware of the fact that the 3gx requires FB drivers, but I have
no
> > idea where they can be found. Any clue ?
> >
> >     -Federico
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