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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- Message-ID: <kbibb.724912698@maui>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <1992Dec21.035502.13754@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:38:18 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In <1992Dec21.035502.13754@netcom.com> marquis@netcom.com (Roger Marquis) writes:
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- >In article <1go470INNsl7@male.EBay.Sun.COM> elkinbar@filly.EBay.Sun.COM (Greg Elkinbard) writes:
- >>
- >>>
- >>> [...] (deleted stuff not about 4.1.x on a Sparcclassic
-
- >Ahem... If I read the 'Subject:' line correctly this thread was not about
- >the de/merits of any particular OS. Doesn't anyone bother to update
- >their subject headers in this newsgroup?
-
- >My question is:
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- >------> HAS ANYONE TRIED TO INSTALL 4.1.x ON A SPARCCLASSIC? <------
-
- As Per sez:
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- >From comp.sys.sun.hardware Sun Dec 20 20:37:49 1992
- >Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- >Path: qualcom.qualcomm.com!walter!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nobeltech!ppan
- >From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- >Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- >Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172019.6869@nobeltech.se>
- >Organization: NobelTech AB
- >References: <8457@btr.BTR.COM>
- >Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:20:19 GMT
- >Lines: 19
- >
- >In article <8457@btr.BTR.COM> bfong@btr.btr.com (B Fong) writes:
- >>
- >>Can someone verify (positively) if the SPARCclassic will run SunOS 4.1.x?
- >>
- >>Does anyone know this for sure? That is, actually installed one?
- >
- >No it won't run 4.1.3. Not only because SUN says so, but it gives a
- >'data exception' when starting the generic 4m kernel after booting off
- >the 4.1.3 CD. It runs the boot program OK though, both from CD and from
- >network.
- >
- >Now 2.1 is on its way onto the disk .....
- >
- >/Per
- >--
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Per Andersson - ppan@nobeltech.se (perand@stacken.kth.se on free time)
- >Managing networks at, but not speaking for Nobeltech AB, J{rf{lla, Sweden
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-
- So someone *has* actually tried it...
-
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
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