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  It just occured to me that this fellow email me because he didn't know
about port-sun3!


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Replied: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:57:42 -0400
Replied: "Kent McConnell <darkseed@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> "
Replied: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:55:45 -0400
Replied: "Kent McConnell <darkseed@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> "
>From darkseed@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Sun Oct 20 14:20:20 1996
From: Kent McConnell <darkseed@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Message-Id: <199610201821.NAA14381@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Sun installation problems
To: mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (Michael Richardson)
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:21:18 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199610201752.NAA22391@amaterasu.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> from "Michael Richardson" at Oct 20, 96 01:52:16 pm
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>   "Unix 4.2 BSD" tapes? 
>   Unless you mean SunOS 3.x, they aren't going to help. And, SunOS 3.x
> is not worth the effort.

Well, these are "CADDStation" machines put together by ComputerVision
when they still sold computers. I assume what they did was bought
the sun parts, put together a computer with their own
CADD software and also SunOS? and sold them with their own labels.
Their labels are on all the tapes including the UNIX tapes. Maybe
it really means to say SunOS? I don't know.

>   9-track tape? Do you have any network access? Any other Sun or Sparc
> machines to network boot from?

Yes, they are on 9-track tapes.
I don't have network access or any other Sun's to boot from...
These are the first Sun's I have ever used/had. I knew virtually
nothing about them until I acquired these. Nothing even remotely
similar...I have been collecting just micro's up until I got a hold
of these Sun-3 Workstations....

> I suggest you try NetBSD, btw. http://www.netbsd.org/

I would like to try if I could :). I probably could try if I could
get the OS tapes I have to install (if its possible) and then get one
of them working with a modem to get NetBSD.

>   You might want to ask mouse@ .. mcgill.ca. Oops. Can't find the
> exact email address right now.

If you come up with that e-mail address I might ask that person too.

Thanks for the help! It is most appreciated!. 

Kent McConnell (Ball State University, CS major)


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