[SunHELP] SunOS 4.1.x install to 3/80

Bill Ross br at bill-ross.org
Fri Nov 25 19:34:52 EST 2022


Hi All and Happy Thanksgiving!

I have a Sun 3/80 which I'd like to get SunOS running on.  In 1990 my work machine was a 3/50 but installation from tape 
was straightforward...

I don't have a tape, tape drive, or CD drive so it will have to be either Netboot or a Network install.  I also have a 
ZuluSCSI disk emulator so I could potentially work from a bootable disk image.

I spent some time digging into Netboot.  I'm hopeful that I can remote boot from my desktop Ubuntu machine but I'm 
having a little trouble understanding how to layout the various NFS /export directories and how to properly name them 
for the Sun3x architecture.  There's some information on sun3arc and sunhelp which has been helpful but I think it's 
incomplete.

Is there anyone who has Netboot from Linux for a Sun3x running?  If so, it would be a great help to have a copy of your 
/export  --  or at least the output of "ls -lR /export".

Alternatively, has anyone had good luck with a ZuluSCSI device? Maybe you would share a copy of your disk image?

Any other ideas that might help would also be very welcome.

Thanks!
-Bill





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