[SunRescue] Anyone know anything about a Tadpole SparcBook 2?????

[Dr. Snock]

I have basically the same thing except it has two harddisks.  If you have the
manual it does a fairly decent job of telling you how to netboot the thing.
Unfortunately I don't think you'll be able to use anything but the SunOS it
came with.  I think there was a version of Solaris (2.4?) that Tadpole sold
that would run on them but I'm not sure.  This one was restored off of a SS10
which got the special version of SunOS 4.1.2 from another SPARCbook.  Any of
the OSes you have listed should work fine though.

If I'm not mistaken Tadpole is http://www.tadpolerdi.com.

-Mike

BSD Bob wrote:

> I just got dumped a Tadpole SparcBook 2 critter, by a friend, that seems to
> have 32M ram and a 350mb hd.  It boots as far as the boot prom trying to
> find a kernel, but it can't find vmunix (probably rm -fr'd away).  I do
> have the Solaris 1.0.1 B.1 cd for it, but no cdrom or cable to hook it up
> (takes a small strange 36 pin scsi cable).
>
> Anyone have any pointers to information on a Tadpole SparcBook 2?
>
> Anyone have any ideas of how to load a Solaris on it?  It seems to have
> the rudimentary netbooting capability in prom.  My local machines with CD's
> are either a FreeBSD box, or a VAX/NetBSD box, or a DECstation/NetBSD box,
> or possibly an OpenBSD Sparc IPX or SS1.
>
> Anyone know if the scsi cable is a standard thing or something ``strange''?
> If I could come up with a cable, and it would work with a DEC RRD42(sony)
> cdrom drive, that might be a possibility.
>
> Is there a website for Tadpole, still?  The cd says Austin, TX, for their
> US headquarters, or the UK.
>
> Any insights, suggestions, horror stories, etc., appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
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