Thanks for the info everyone!
Yeah, I understand that Solaris 2.5.1 is probably better, but I can only get
my hands on 2.4 or 8. And I want to install OpenStep 1.0 (for sentimental
reasons) on top of Solaris. I understand that OpenStep for Solaris doesn't
work with anything newer than 2.5...
Also, I've got a ton of 72 pin SIMMs sitting around (well over 128MB worth)
pulled from 68k and PPC 601 Macintoshes... So I'm not concerned about the
memory. I dunno if they are parity or not, though. Macs don't care... Any
way I can tell by looking at the SIMMs?
Nah, I'm not looking for a speed deamon here. I know I won't be setting any
records or anything. I just want a chance to get an older box up and
running so when I'm at school I can proudly say: "Look at this! I got an LX
from a dumpster, put Solaris 2.4 and OpenStep 1 on it, and now I'm running
OmniWeb 2.5!" *grin*
Well... first I'd like to get it running... ;-)
In the meantime, I'll be looking for an older CD-ROM drive that will do 512
byte blocks. It seems people here are correct - the Matshita CD-R i have
probably is the problem. I just succesfully started a Solaris 2.4
installation on an LX here at work for a co-worker... He's not sticking with
Solaris though, he'll be moving to a Mandrake Linux distro.
Question about the audio: It's 44kHz 16bit stereo, right? Any chance I can
play MP3s? :-D heh.... 50MHz is a bit slow for 128kbps audio I imagine.
But it's worth a try just for the heck of it, right?
Peace,
Drew
P.S. I'm sure I'll have more difficulties ;-) I'll write again once I
locate a CD-ROM which can do 512byte blocks
----Original Message Follows----
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Reply-To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Problems installing Solaris 2.4 on SPARCstation LX
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:42:31 -0700 (PDT)
[snip]
> Ugh.
> Solaris 2.4 was no bargain... I wouldn't use anything less than 2.5.
> I'd probably try 2.6. On IPX's and Sparc2's I'd prefer the SunOS
> 4.1.3_U1.
Agreed. For a flood of reasons, I'd consider 2.5.1 to be the baseline for
experimenting with old Solaris unless you are aiming for something
historical.
[snip]
You can also stuff a pair of 32Mb 72-pin parity SIMMs in the first bank
(it's
all done in pairs), giving you a maximum of 128Mb on a Classic or LX. Mine
has 2 x 32Mb + 2 x 16Mb + 2 x 4Mb for a total of 108Mb. That and a couple
of
9Mb SCSI-narrow drives and it hums along nicely under Solaris 7. It will
never
set any speed records, to be sure. It's about the same level of
responsiveness
as a SPARC2 or IPX even though it's a 50Mhz MicroSparcII chip (QFP soldered,
no upgrade possible, unlike the SPARC2 and IPX), but the big benefit is that
it is sun4m and has a longer useful life if you don't need to wring any
speed
out of it.
[snip]
-ethan
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