[H-GEN] Sparc

[Monica Anthon]

To those interested, we managed to get RH4.2 installed and working quite 
happily.  I had to temporarily stick 12M in the machines to do it (good 
thing I had more than one of em) and installed using an external SCSI hard 
drive with the RH stuff on it.  The install I did (no X crap) only uses 
about 40M of the hard disk, so there's plenty of room for other bits and 
pieces still.

Even plugged in an old Macintosh modem we had lying around and the damn 
thing WORKED !!!! ( I was really amazed at that one).

Basically, these things seem to be pretty good and I am VERY happy with my 
purchase.  Will be trying to get PPP going on it tomorrow and sart 
configuring myself a gateway.  Oh, BTW, RH 4.2 for Sparc has masquerading 
compiled into it in the distribution so I haven't even needed to do a 
kernel compile yet.  If you are going to do this, I think there are a few 
broken links in the source tree that need to be fixed, and also X won't run 
"out of the box" for the same reason.

If anyone is having trouble or needs the install files, I am considering 
coming along on Saturday.  What is the best time to show up for this kinda 
thing ?

Regards
MICHAEL Anthon

On Monday, 13 April 1998 22:11, Frank Brand [SMTP:fbrand at uq.net.au] wrote:
> My compatriots have got  one of the Sparcs up and running,
> CDROM attached and Solaris 2.6 running happily. However more memory and
> a larger scsi drive are definitely needed.
>
> I understand that it is not necessary to repartition or reformat on a
> PC. Those Sun gurus who know are aware of a key sequence that will cause
> it to happen without removal of the hdd. I am told lots of other secret
> Sun handshake goodies are available too! Some of these things may be
> revealed to me tomorrow if I agree to join the Masonic Lodge and the
> Knights of Columbus (sorry Robert the only  similar Jewish
> organisiation  I know of is the Stern Gang and I don't think it is
> QUITE the same  ;^>).
>
> Oh, by the way, I am reliably informed that my techo mate has produced a
> cable to enable use of the Sun monitor on Intel machines. Possibly more
> info tomorrow.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Frank Brand
> E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
> Homepage: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand
>
>
>
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