[rescue] Re: sun 2 media questions

[Walter Belgers]

Hi,

> > Is there an easy way to get SunOS 4.0.3 somewhere? 
> 
> Hi.  This version and others are now online, see:
> http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2002-June/058620.html

Wow.. that's great.. SunOS 2.. 

You know, I'm 32 years old, started with Unix (SunOS 4 and Ultrix 4) in
1988. In 1994 I first got my hands on a Sun3, now I got a Sun2. It's
really great to dig into the older Un*x machines and getting help from
others on this list. I did a lot of searching on the web/USENET but
couldn't find much - but fortunately I found the rescue list, this is
_great stuff_.

Btw, my computer collection is at http://www.belgers.com/computers/

> > I found out the 2/170 will run NetBSD, but not the 2/50. 
> As the NetBSD/sun2 port maintainer, I'd say there's a one in five
> chance that it will work right now on the 2/50.  I added the support 
> as best I could without having any hardware to test on.

I haven't had the time to test the 2/50 yet. Do you want some feedback
on whether or not NetBSD works? (via ndboot)

I'm organising the European BSD Conference in Amsterdam in November
and I think that if we'd had gotten a paper on doing NetBSD on a Sun2
from you we would have accepted it right away :)

> Also, the Multibus Xylogics adapter isn't supported yet.

Bummer.

> Netbooting NetBSD/sun2 uses a ndbootd/bootparamd/nfs combination, see:
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.sun2.html

Great great.. why didn't _I_ find this?

> The ndbootd program can be found in NetBSD -current and the 1.6 betas.
> There's also a chance that you could use ndbootd to netboot SunOS,
> though I haven't tried.

This very much improves my chances with the 2/50. I was afraid I
couldn't get it to run anything.

Thanks Matt, great help!

Walter.
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