Subject: Re: Cheap Sparc Notebooks
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Preston Vega <bugo@orbit.zepa.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/19/1999 04:15:36
Btw, the syboot NetBSD flop makes an excellent recovery diskette for those
with Solaris installed. I was rather impressed. I tried to mount the fs
with an obsd diskette and it didnt work. NetBSD flop mounted it even
though it needed to be fsck'ed. Who says there're no Sparc Solaris rescue
disks?=) 

PS

Im slowly discovering how incredible the NetBSD project and how much it
has to offer. If any of you have any ideas on how to promote NetBSD in my
aread (that is, Orlando FL) drop me a line.

Cheers,
BUGO Founder

BSD Users Group of Orlando: http://bugo.zepa.net
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> 
> On 18-Jul-99 Ken Wellsch wrote:
> > When I saw this deal mentioned on the nearby Orlando BUGO site a few weeks
> > back,  I ordered a GS. I've seen postings here indicated "it just works"
> > when newbie GX/GS owners asked.  But until I took the external drive I
> > built my ss20/elf -current on (July 4th) and booted it on the GS last
> > night, I didn't know how correct "just works" was. I presumed I'd need
> > a serial console, but no, it "just works!"  Sure, no X with the Weitek
> > P9100, but the LCD worked fine as an ASCII console.  I initially tried
> > booting an old 1.3I floppy I'd made long ago but couldn't figure out the
> > exact way of referencing the SCSI floppy drive, so I punted to the external
> > SCSI HD I had handy instead.
> 
> I just finished installing mine a few hours ago.  It picks up the floppy as a
> normal scsi disk target.. I was able to access it in netbsd as "sd1c".
> 
> I just printed out the hardware docs for the notebook, and they seem pretty
> complete.. perhaps some drivers will start showing up.
> 
> The machine runs pretty quick, and the scrolling isn't bad..  I like this
> machine.. having X on it would be killer.
> 
> Tim.
>