[rescue] Where to get pdf manual for Tadpole Ultrabook IIe

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

If you need an ISO of the Sol 8 media, let me know.

Peter

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> On 23 Feb 2018, at 06:30, Brendan Shanks <mrpippy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Flextronics does support for all the Tadpole machines, their site has the
user
> manual and Solaris 8/9/10 drivers for the IIe. The driver discs are for
> specific Solaris versions though, hopefully your 8 media is 02/02, 02/04,
or
> 07/03.
> A USB keyboard/mouse has to be used for the installation, the internals
> donbt work until the driver CD is installed.
>
> http://www.flextronicssupport.com/
>
> Brendan
>
>> On Feb 22, 2018, at 8:35 PM, Robert Bell <mancity at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I just picked up a Tadpole Ultrabook IIe ( U50-14-2Y-1G ) laptop and
>> would really like to find a pdf of the manual, I managed to find one for
>> the IIi but that is totally different to my IIe and I have looked
>> everywhere and can't seem to find one. I also need the patches for Solaris
>> 8 and the Tadpole specific software like Powertools, I found a mirror of
>> ftp.tadpole.com  but for some reason the Ultrabook IIe directory is
> missing,
>> iso's of the original disks would be great then I could get this laptop to
>> its original working state. At the moment I have NetBSD 7.1.1 running on
it
>> but I would like to get Solaris 8 installed, I have a complete new Solaris
>> 8 media package but it doesn't recognise the built in keyboard and
trackpad
>> during install so I have to use external ones just to complete
installation
>> but that is not ideal for a laptop, I guess the Tadpole install cd has the
>> drivers for the keyboard and trackpad where-as the Sun disks do not.
>>
>> thanks.
>> Robert Bell.
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