[SPARCbook] Solaris 8 ?

[Michael S. Schiller]

Speaking of HD's on sparcbooks, I got a 20gig fujitsu HD in my 3GX, but I
couldn't get it formated to anything larger than 4.3 gig (I think that's what
it was, this is going from memory). I know Sol 2.6 doesn't support more than
what is it, 8 gigs? or so, but does anyone have a format.dat entry for the
20gig fujitsu (it's an ide drive connected with an ide<->scsi adapter) to use
as much of the drive as possible?

-Mike

Ken Hansen wrote:

> Haw-haw haw! That's a good one.
>
> No, Solaris 8 is not supported/available for the SparcBook 3XX series
> notebooks, AFAIK.
>
> Also, think of the limitations: SS/5-110 class CPU, 64 Meg (Practical limit,
> 128 Meg *possible*), expensive HD space ($650 for a 12 Gig drive, $400 for a
> 6.4 Gig drive)... WOuld you really want to run Solaris 8 on that?
>
> An SS/5-170 w/128 -> 256 Meg RAM, U/W SCSI, and a nice TGX framebuffer, and
> then Solaris 8 starts to become fun, IMHO...
>
> Ken
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Evans" <matt at mattevans.org>
> To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 3:01 AM
> Subject: [SPARCbook] Solaris 8 ?
>
> >
> > I'm trying to sell my 3GS and the potential buyer is wondering if he can
> > run 2.8 on it.  Theres nothing in the FAQ post 7.
> >
> > Anyone tried this ?  I know its foolish until there are tadpole patches
> > for it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
> >
> >
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