[rescue] RE:SunPC (the SBUS one)

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:29:17PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 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

Exactly.  Lets you run Windows in a window on the desktop.

Bill

> 
> -----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
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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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Bill Bradford
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