[rescue] RE:SunPC (the SBUS one)

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I'm kinda new to the Sun world, so please be patient, but what is a SunPCi
card. From what I have read here, it sounds like a PCI card that has an
Intel CPU on it. But what is the purpose, running x86 software natively?

thanks
shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Ken Hansen
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:34 PM
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
Subject: [rescue] RE:SunPC (the SBUS one)


I'm not familiar with the drive-size limitations, but I will probably put
Solaris 2.6 on my SS/20 and drop the SunPC card in there, just out of
curiousity...

I am really looking forward to firing up my SunPCi card (Thanks Mike N.!) -
it has the 400 MHz CPU on it, and RAMis *dirt* cheap... I downloaded the
SunPCi 1.3 software (the final release, as I understand it) and will try and
get it running this weekend...

BTW, I installed the Sun Companion CD for Solaris 8 (SPARC), and was
suprised that it just goes and installs everything by default - that was a
bit aggressive, IMHO. I thought i woul dhave to pick out packages one by one
to install... I'll have to try cdrecord with my old Plextor CD-R drive...

This could turn out to be a fun weekend, and for those interested, yes, I am
currently crunching SETI packets on it until I get it up to snuff as a
desk-top replacement with my big 21" screen!

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-request at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-request at sunhelp.org]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:43 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: rescue digest, Vol 1 #1702 - 18 msgs

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Message: 18
From: "G W Adkins" <gwadkins at erols.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Q: SunPC (SBUS) card - it has no slot cover...
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:41:29 -0400
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

> > Also, Solaris 2.6 is the last release of Solaris that supported that
> > card, right?
>
> Yup (unless anyone has managed to hack something?).

2.6 is the latest OS which supported it officially.  I've been meaning to
try the 2.6 -> patch -> SunPC -> patch -> 2.7 upgrade trick, but haven't
gotten around to it.

BTW, if you install SunPC 4.2, you NEED to patch it with the latest SunPC
patch to be found under the Solaris 2.6 patches.  It's not part of the big
cluster...  It makes SunPC run MUCH better.  (and increases drive size from
128M to 512M).
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