[rescue] Sun Solaris questions...

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Mike

I guess that was a special order or done by a disti as the Sun handbook does
not list a DVD as being an option. As I mentioned I have never seen a Sun DVD
on a U5/10 only on the next gen of systems such as Blade 100/150.

Peter

Sent from my iPad

> On 31 Mar 2019, at 14:34, Mike Spooner <mikes at aalin.co.uk> wrote:
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> Later U10 came with a crap DVD reader from the factory - at least the two we
had at work back in the day did, as did another I rescued from another
company. Perhaps it was a "to order" option, and only for the headless U10S?
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> Regards,
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> Mike
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> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 12:30 PM +0100, "Peter Stokes" <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
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> Hi Mike
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> The 512/2048 fix for Sun 420 was an update to the drive, I had a few of
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> needing it.
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> On the U10, I was not aware it ever came with a DVD option from Sun? Only
ever
> seen third party ones in the systems I have had in.
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> Peter
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>> On 31 Mar 2019, at 11:22, Mike Spooner  wrote:
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>> Max memory on the Ultra-2 is 2GB, 16x128MB (IIRC, must be installed in
> groups of 4).
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>> As usual MemoryX appear to have 'em in stock.
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>> I suspect the U2 firmware and S10 boot-loader were beyond the 512/2048
> shenannigans (ie: could cope with either).
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>> Some SCSI DVD drive models could not reliably read DVDs containing more
than
> 3.7GB of data and thus could not install later revs of S10 (the stock ones
in
> the Ultra-10 were notorious for that, fixable with firmware upgrade,
although
> some other makes/models seem to have the problem too).
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>> Finally, burning S10 media can be a hit-and-miss affair on Sun systems -
if
> you don't have original Sun media but just a (SPARC edition) ISO, I would
> transfer the ISO to a PC and burn it to DVD *there*.
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>> Regards,
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>> Mike
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>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:06 AM +0100, "Peter Stokes"
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>> Hi Bob
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>> A couple of questions...
>> 1) can you read the media on the running system ok?
>> 2) Does the drive have a 512/2048 jumper and for the DVD is set to 2048,
> 512
>> for CD?
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>> Also agree that 11 is not for the U2, stick with 10 last release was the
13
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>> You may want to increase the mem to 512/1gb however for 10, cannot
remember
>> the min values for 10.
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>> Peter
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>>> On 31 Mar 2019, at 03:31, Bob Darlington  wrote:
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>>> Hi guys,
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>>> I recently resurrected my old Sun Ultra 2 dual 300MHz box.  This involved
>>> cutting down into the NVRAM chip and attaching an external battery,
> finding
>>> a 13W3  to VGA adapter, etc.
>>>
>>> It's running Solaris 10 on a 9GB internal disk with 256 MB RAM.
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>>> I see that 11.4 is supported on the Ultra 2, but the minimum recommended
>>> system memory is 4GB -twice the max for this system, and a whole lot more
>>> than what I have.
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>>> I can't for the life of me boot the install DVD and am getting "Can't
open
>>> boot_archive" and "fast data access mmu miss" below that.
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>>> Is there some trick to this?  I've since copied the 10-Recommended
patches
>>> off a DVD I made back in 6/2010 with whatever was current there and am
>>> currently patching the system (slow) so I know the DVD drive is at least
>>> good enough for that.   It's an HP drive I use with my NeXT and have some
>>> confidence in it, and is setup at the default scsi ID 6 where the
internal
>>> CDROM drive was.
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>>> Is it worth it to even try going to 11.4?  When I see a minimum amount of
>>> memory that high, I keep eyeballing my 2.6 CD.
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>>> Thanks all,
>>> Bob
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