[rescue] Looking for Prestoserve 2.3 for SunOS 4.x sun4c

[Richard]

Hi Mark

Fantastic, will down load and give it a go today.

Cheers

Richard

Sent from my iPhone

> On 10 Sep 2017, at 05:23, Mark G Thomas <Mark at Misty.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here is what I found. It looks to me like 2.4.0 is good for SunOS-4.x on
> sun4c hardware, which is what I remember running it on years ago.
>
> http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/presto240.tar.gz
>
> (Also grab this) http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/presto242.tar.gz
>
> From presto240/presto_chango:
> #
> arch=sun4c
> release=2.4
> sys_patch=0
> ....
> release_msg=\
> "${productname} release ${release} requires a SunOS release based on
4.[01]."
>
> Mark
>
>
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:49:26PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>  Well shit, I'm sorry about that.  I wasn't aware that this
>> distribution was sun4 only. :-(  That sucks for me as well, because I
>> have a couple of Sbus Prestoserve cards around here somewhere.
>>
>>  If you do manage to find the sun4c distribution, please share?
>>
>>          Thanks,
>>          -Dave
>>
>>> On 08/31/2017 08:52 PM, Richard wrote:
>>> Hi Dave
>>>
>>> Thanks you again for putting that up. Have gone to install but it looks
>>> like it is a sun4 version and not sun4c....
>>>
>>> ss2-le0# ./presto_chango
>>>        Prestoserve(TM) - sun4 Release 2.2
>>> Copyright (c) 1990 by Legato Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>> Machine `ss2-le0' is type `sun4c', not `sun4' as expected.
>>> ss2-le0#
>>>
>>> Not to be deterred (some dusty memories coming back - I recall there was
>>> trick to doing the original install back in the day) I modify the
>>> arch=sun4 to sun4c at the top of presto_chango (there are also
>>> #ifdef=sun4c in the presto_chango file so I was hopeful)
>>>
>>> I get the following (which I suppose I really should have expected given
>>> it had already told me it was for Sun4 (i.e. VME based sun4 not an Sbus
>>> sun4c - was worth a try)
>>>
>>> <....>
>>> cp prestotool /usr/bin/prestotool
>>> cp presto /usr/etc/presto
>>> cp prestoctl_svc /usr/etc/prestoctl_svc
>>> cp prestoctl.x /usr/include/rpcsvc/prestoctl.x
>>> cp prestoctl.h /usr/include/rpcsvc/prestoctl.h
>>> cp prestoioctl.h /usr/include/sundev/prestoioctl.h
>>> cp presto_chango /usr/etc/presto_chango
>>> Config and make a Presto-ized kernel [yes]? yes
>>> System name in /sys/sun4c/conf to config [GENERIC]? SS2
>>> cp /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2 /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2.prepresto
>>> echo "device            ps0 at vme16d16 ? csr 0x4c00
>>> device          pr0 at vme24d32 ? csr 0x800000" >> /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2
>>>    * * * Config'ing /sys/sun4c/conf/SS2
>>> (cd /sys/sun4c/conf; config SS2)
>>> config: line 231: wrong machine type for vme16d16
>>> config: line 231: no vme16d16's to wildcard
>>> ./presto_chango: 618 Memory fault - core dumped
>>> presto_chango:  unexpected return code 139
>>> ss2-le0#
>>>
>>> I changed the vme reference to sbus in the kernel config but config told
>>> me that "sun4c doesn't have mb_device structures."...I suppose I could
>>> keep hacking away but I am picking there will be more issues and it may
>>> not work as expected. Anyway config completed and so did the build of
>>> the kernel..but not unexpectedly it errors on boot as not being able to
>>> find the device pr0 (have checked and the /dev/pr0 exists) .
>>>
>>> Anyone know the next step for this version or have a sun4c version of
>>> prestoserve 2.3 or earlier ?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 08:36 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Ok, I've put it up at:
>>>>
>>>>  http://www.neurotica.com/misc/prestoserve-2.2.tar.gz.
>>>>
>>>>  Please let me know when you have the file.
>>>>
>>>>            -Dave
>>>>
>>>>> On 08/31/2017 05:11 PM, Richard wrote:
>>>>> Hi Dave
>>>>>
>>>>> That would be fantastic and would be a great start. Yes please!
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 31 Aug 2017, at 09:58, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 08/30/2017 05:20 PM, Richard wrote:
>>>>>>> My google fu is letting me down and for the life of me I cannot find
>>>>>>> prestoserve 2.3 for SunOS 4.x Sun4c I thought I had it but cannot
find
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> media or image. Frustratingly I have a the CD for prestoserver 2.4.1
>>>>>>> (anyone need that?)
>>>>>>> which would work great if I wanted to run Solaris 2.x on my SS2 (which
I
>>>>>>> don't).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have 2.2, is that close enough?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>           -Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>>>>> New Kensington, PA
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