[SunRescue] Recommend starter Sun?

User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Mar 19 09:37:50 CST 2001


> Ok. *scratches head* The LX boots.  Figure that one out.  The mystery line
> is the beginning of the install script thus:

Possibly floppy problems?  Sun floppies are persnickety, at best, and
usually need several passes with a cleaning floppy before they work
well, in my hands.  Also check the drive actuator lead screw for dust
accumulation.  I have had several stop there in head seeks.

> rootdev=0x1100 rrootdev=0x6a00 rawdev=0x6a02
> WARNING: clock gained 130 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
> upported terminals are: sun vt* pcvt* pc3 dumb
> Terminal type? [sun]

Headless, probably choose vt* or dumb (vt100 is best).
I had problems on my VAX last night using VT320 emulation with
smooth scroll.  I had to drop back to VT100 with jumpy scroll
to get everything to work well.

Hmm, I have never installed headless, on later sparc boxes, only
on VME crates.  If it is a terminal emuation, make sure it is
as close to vt100/102 as you can get.

That is all I can think of, offhand.

Bob



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