[SunRescue] sun-2

Tue Oct 3 15:34:41 CDT 2000

Ftp://ftp.sunhelp.org has archived copies of SunOS for the 
Sun-2 series...

Bill

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:09PM -0400, Curtis Wilbar [STAFF] wrote:
> 
> Per Jon's recommendation, I am forwarding this to the rescue list...
> 
> anybody that can get me moving in the right direction would be
> appreciated.  BTW, my level of knowledge (at least of later Suns)
> is excellent (I worked for Sun for three years, then started an ISP
> using Sun equipment).  The earliest Sun's I've worked with to date
> are Sun-3/3x, and 386i/486i.  Hopefully not too far different from the
> Sun-2.
> 
> Anyone got a Sun-1 they want to sell (I've never even seen one :-( ).
> 
> -- Curt
> 
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> >From curtis at ici.net  Tue Oct  3 15:58:04 2000
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:57:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Curtis Wilbar [STAFF]" <curtis at ici.net>
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I am mailing you because you were talking about saving a sun-2 on
> an internet list.
> 
>   I too am trying to rescue a sun-2 from certain destruction.  It was
> given to me by a friend.  When he first aquired it the monitor was bad,
> by the time he found a monitor, he found out the hard drive is dying.
> It no longer boots.
> 
>   I have no problem with replacing the hard drive, I'm sure I have
> several compatable drives in my "stockpile" of antique parts.
> 
>   What I don't have is SunOS 3.5 or SunOS 4.0.3 load tapes for the
> Sun-2.
> 
>   I'm hoping someone out there might have these.  I have a program
> (which I'll have to dig up) used to copy 1/4" tapes (I used it it duplicate
> SunOS 4.0.3 beta tapes for the 386i/486i).
> 
>   I'd like to get this working, so it can take it's place next to my
> Sun 486i.
> 
>   You'd think by now Sun wouldn't care about these old boxes, and someone
> could put dd images or something of the various tape files from the
> install tapes online somewhere.
> 
>   Any help/pointers/etc would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- Curt
> 
> 
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Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
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    Austin, TX