[geeks] sigh.

[Stefan Molnar]

sun4us support was added to base solaris7 (MU2 or 3)

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:52:31PM -0700, Stefan Molnar wrote:
> > Ever check a e45000 aginst a sun4us fuji taho box?   No where near each
> > other.
>
> Only problem with stuff like the Fujitsu SPARC stuff is that when they decide
> to quit supporting their older "not quite standard" hardware, you're up a
> creek.
>
> I've got a situation now where I'm trying to help a guy recover some old
> files off of a HALstation 64-bit SPARC machine that *will not* boot a "normal"
> Solaris CD-ROM - and the special version of Solaris 2.4 for this machine is
> pure unobtanium.  I'm going to end up having to mount the drives (luckily,
> they're UFS) on another SPARC and just copy the files over.
>
> (the root password was forgotten)
>
> I think a lot of the modern Fujitsu stuff is "normal", but some of their
> high-end equipment is pretty exotic and "just different enough".
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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