Setting-up a Sun shoebox.

From: J. Maynard Gelinas <jmg_at_iac.net>
Date: Mon Mar 2 23:53:07 1998

> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:09:56 -0500
> From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini_at_email.msn.com>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Setting-up a Sun shoebox.
>
> I finally got the various pieces together that I need to hopefully setup
> a shoebox for my 3/50. I have a copy of NetBSD on CD-ROM, the shoebox, and
> 60mb tapes.
>
> My question is this: what is the best way to setup the shoebox with
> NetBSD? I thought about hooking the shoebox and a CD up to a PeeCee and
> trying to create a bootable tape (I don't know if this is even possible), or
> copying the 68k distribution to the hard disk. If you read the FAQ on the
> CD, it almost sounds like you need a bootable system to be able to install
> it.
>
        Yeah, I think you would be better off netbooting the thing via
bootp rather than building a bootable tape. I have a couple 3/80's
here at home, and there are bunches of old 3/50's lying around at work
(the government owns them, they'll be there till the sun explodes).
The 3/50 didn't support CDROM's from the PROM as I remember, so you're
going to have to either make a bootable tape or netboot it. Do you
have another UNIX or Linux box and a LAN nearby?

J. Maynard Gelinas
Received on Mon Mar 02 1998 - 23:53:07 GMT