Re: OS

Brent Busby <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, [email protected] wrote:

> "silvercreekvalley" wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an *original* SunOS 4.x on tape or CD for Sun 3/3x?
>
> As a matter of fact, you can download SunOS 4.1.1 for Sun3
> for free, from the Web.
>
> Here's the link:
> http://www.sun3zoo.de/sun3arc/BootTapes/Sun3/index.html
>
> There are scripts to regenerate the QIC24 tapes from the
> supplied compressed tar files, and TOCs for QIC150,
> Exabyte and CD-ROM media.
>
> I've used these downloads to run SunOS 4.1.1 on Matt Fredette's
> TME Sun 3/150 emulator, under Linux.

This brings to mind another question I've had:

Is there anywhere these days that you can get SunOS 4.1.4 on CDROM?  If 
possible, I'd like to do a fresh OS load on a Sparc 5 with an attached 
SCSI CD, on the theory that this may be less hassle than tape.

(You can do an OS load this was from the PROM, can't you?)

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