[SunRescue] SunPC crashes Solaris

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Only fix is to install 2.6 as that's the last OS that the SunPC was
supported. I know I tried all kinds of things to get mine working and it
never did under 7.

Hope this helps.

William

> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:27:52 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Brian P. Hinz" <bhinz at chipmunk.nsc.com>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org, rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] SunPC crashes Solaris
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to install a SunPC SBUS card in a SPARC 5  running Solaris 7. After
> installing SunPC 4.1, and patch 102924-26 the sunpc software comes up and warns
> that no floppy is detected (this box is floppy-less). The SunPC users guide says
> to just remove the mapping using the Hard Disk Editor. I tried this and
> immediately the system dumps. Patch 105557-01 (SunPC 4.2 upgrade) claims to fix
> this but when I try to install it I get the following message:
> 
> # patchadd -M . 105557-01
> 
> Checking installed patches...
> One or more patch packages included in
> 105557-01 are not installed on this system.
> 
> Patchadd is terminating.
> 
> WTF?  Anyone else know how to get this little bastige to work?
> 
> thanks,
> -brian
> 
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