[SPARCbook] Voyager IIi OS Question

[Liam]

Hi All,

Some familiar names cropping up from a long time ago!

My pennysworth is that I have had Solaris 9 running on a VoyagerIIi, but the
graphics didn't work. 

My original one is in sight of my keyboard every day, but to hook everything
up is so much hassle...... I never did get the PCMCIA sound card working,
either. I have never used the PS/2 ports. After my first experience with a
Sun Ultra 5 without a mouse (the installation prog says you can....), I just
bypassed the angst and confusion by using Sun stuff.

To my shame, I still have a brand new machine, unboxed to have a look at,
complete with Solaris 7 disks, sitting in a drawer. I'm sure it's never even
been plugged in. I have also never fired up in anger my pair of S3000's. If
anyone has a caddy for these, (i.e. the other gender, for an IDE drive), I'd
be interested.

Good luck to all.

Cheers, Liam


-----Original Message-----
From: sunder [mailto:sunder at sunder.net] 
Sent: 08 August 2009 19:04
To: SPARC-based Portable Workstations
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Voyager IIi OS Question

Gary Borgen Old wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed Solaris 9, 10 or OpenBSD on a
> Tadpole Voyager IIi?  I have the later version of the Voyager with
> built in Raptor video.  

Mine has video on a PCI card.  I've managed to install Solaris 10 on it,
which works just fine, but only if you do not plug anything into the
PS/2 keyboard port - if you use the PS/2 ports, the OS will panic on
start up saying it doesn't know what to do with the PS/2 keyboard interface.

So far video and everything else has worked just fine.  I believe I used
Solaris 2008.05 on this, though later versions may work too.