<div dir="ltr"><div>The emulation of proper tape drive records is present in TME - see this fragment from the setup file that I have to install SunOS 2:</div><div><br></div><div>## power up the machine:<br>##<br># uncomment this line to automatically power up the machine when<br># tmesh starts:<br>#<br>command tape0 load sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/01 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/02 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/03 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/04 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/05 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/06 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/07 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/08 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/09 sunos-2.0-sun2/tape1/10<br>command mainbus0 power up</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you need more of a walkthrough, I'd have to get NetBSD running in a VM as I haven't worked with this in a long time, but I'm sure it still works.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Henry<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 18:04, <<a href="mailto:earl@baugh.org">earl@baugh.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I had old instructions to do this but getting TME running was a bit quirky. And the package had lost most of it’s support.<div>(I did just go out and find that some folks have somewhat resurrected it…) </div><div><br></div><div>I have the install manual for 3.5 ( <a href="http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/sunos/3.5/800-2089-10A_Release_3.5_Manual_for_the_Sun_Workstation_198711.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/sunos/3.5/800-2089-10A_Release_3.5_Manual_for_the_Sun_Workstation_198711.pdf</a>)</div><div>And did find this about TME Now ( <a href="https://pkgsrc.se/wip/tme" target="_blank">https://pkgsrc.se/wip/tme</a> )</div><div>And these instructions (which from the link before this page indicated as of 2019 they still worked <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/sun3-150-nbsd.html" target="_blank">http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/sun3-150-nbsd.html</a> )</div><div><br></div><div>That would get me “close” if I could somehow write to an emulated SCSI device.. or the SD card that supported it… etc. Blue SCSI, Green SCSI, Pi SCSI, etc. I don’t care which (would prefer something that would let me use a “real” drive… SSD or similar is fine… rather than SD card). I do have an image that gets me “somewhat” booting with a SCSI2SD but the additional drive mounts are wrong in the fstab/mtab so I can’t get it fully to boot….</div><div><br></div><div>If I can figure out the process, I’ll make images and share them (for all the early Sun OS’s) and write up a web page and post it to <a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank">archive.org</a> so nobody has to go thru this again :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Earl<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 13, 2024, at 5:56 PM, Henry Bent <<a href="mailto:henry.r.bent@gmail.com" target="_blank">henry.r.bent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>TME - most recently <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/nme/" target="_blank">https://osdn.net/projects/nme/</a> - in theory does what you want. Its setup and use is a bit idiosyncratic, and I have found that it is unhappy running on OSs other than NetBSD, but if you get it running it just works. I've used it to set up installations of SunOS 3 and 4 on sun2, sun3, and sun4 architectures.</div><div><br></div><div>-Henry<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 17:49, <<a href="mailto:earl@baugh.org" target="_blank">earl@baugh.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I’m looking for a “Sun OS 3.5” emulation running where I can attach a SCSI emulator to it and get the full OS installed.<div>I’ve got tape images but I haven’t found the process to emulate how it used to work. </div><div><br></div><div>From the initial boot prompt, you extracted them to the “swap partition” and then started the install and it would prompt you for the next tape when needed.</div><div>So, I guess we’d need an emulated tape or something, etc. I have all the tar’s (all the way back to Sun OS 1 or so) but have been frustrated trying to make some progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Earl</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 13, 2024, at 5:31 PM, Henry Bent <<a href="mailto:henry.r.bent@gmail.com" target="_blank">henry.r.bent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 17:27, Will Senn <<a href="mailto:will.senn@gmail.com" target="_blank">will.senn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>On 3/13/24 3:12 PM, Henry Bent wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I've been working quite a bit recently with SunOS 4 on a SPARCstation 5, seeing what I can coax out of it in terms of building and supporting a modern computing environment. I know that TUHS isn't really the right place for this, but can someone point me to somewhere that is? I've made significant progress in some areas and spent a lot of cycles to get there - for instance, I have GCC 3.4.6 up and running - so I'd like to contribute to a community if one exists. Is there a modern equivalent of sun-managers?</div><div><br></div><div>-Henry<br></div></div></blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Not an answer to the question, but on a tangent...<br><br>I recently saw that Solaris 11.4 SRU66 was released and had a yearning to see how things in Solaris land were doing (can't stand Gnome so OpenIndiana's a bust)... but with Oracle's Solaris, it's a mess at least for hobbyists (only get release patches, so I'm guessing the most up to date 'release' was 11.4 in 2018). So, when I saw your post on SunOS 4, I thought I'd tool around and see if it was easy to get rolling as a VM, turns out things have come a long way on that front:<br><br><a href="https://defcon.no/sysadm/playing-with-sunos-4-1-4-on-qemu/" target="_blank">https://defcon.no/sysadm/playing-with-sunos-4-1-4-on-qemu/</a><br><br>OpenWindows 3... wow... works great on my Mint instance. Now, if I could just remember how commands work on SunOS :).<br></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Will! You may also be interested in <a href="https://john-millikin.com/running-sunos-4-in-qemu-sparc" target="_blank">https://john-millikin.com/running-sunos-4-in-qemu-sparc</a><span> </span>as another resource about running SunOS 4 in QEMU. I have considered moving my setup to QEMU, especially as it would be very easy to create a hard drive image since I am using a SCSI2SD board, but there is something about running these things on the original hardware that is difficult to leave behind.</div><div><br></div><div>-Henry</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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