Sun 3/50 and Shoebox

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Fri Feb 6 22:25:07 1998

> After reading the Sun FAQ, I'm left clueless on how to get it to boot
> from the hard drive. The workstation that I got appears to have been a
> remote-boot type, because it looks for an Internet address at startup.

You can always abort the boot by hitting Stop-A during the process. If you
have no transceiver on the ethernet port, the machine will complain but a
boot will never start, so do not worry about corrupting anything. Anyway,
from the monitor, you can specify the boot (I think it is b(#,#,#), but I
will have to check on that).

> Dirst off, how do I change the default boot device? Second, what are the
> appropriate SCSI device IDs for the hard drive and tape drive? Right now,
> they are set for tape:6, drive:4 (I remember from somewhere that the Suns
> look for a drive on ID=6).

On the early SPARC machines, it is contained in the battery backed RAM
(incidently, a part that causes endless frustration with Sun people -
after ten or so years, they die, and so does your Sun. Some people have
started hacking the RAM, literally, attaching wires to the internal
batteries!). You have to fiddle with the monitor.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Fri Feb 06 1998 - 22:25:07 GMT