[SPARCbook] Solaris 2.6

[Sunder]

Disks aren't going to be easy to find.  Well, they are, if you have a tray 
for them, and the ADTX IDE-SCSI bridge - if you do, you can use most any 
2.5" notebook IDE disk.  

If it works for you, you can also go with an external SCSI-2 (narrow)  
drive which will work just fine, but you lose mobility - not that it 
matters much since these machines don't usually get more than 45 mins on 
battery power.

Solaris 2.6 is correct, though you need special Tadpole drivers to make 
the display, power management, ISDN, built in modem, etc. work with 
Solaris.

Solaris 7 will also run, but good luck finding the Tadpole packages for 
it.  They were selling that in 1997 for $400. :)

There was talk of various linux distros working too...  You might want to 
check the archives...


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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Chris Hilliard wrote:

> Hi,
> have just got a sparc from ebay, but it has no disks for it. I have
> been told that it should work on solaris 2.6, but i lost the bid on
> the disks.
> Does anybody know where to get the disks? in the UK would be good.