[TUHS] FYI v9 runs on TME

[Cory Smelosky]

Have a pre-made image?



I'm busy fighting with an IPX that is convinced the motherboard is
occasionally shorted.




On Fri, Mar 31, 2017, at 22:36, jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com wrote:

> For the 99% of us that don’t have a SUN-3, it’ll run on TME.  I
> followed the instructions on abiyo.net on installing SunOS 4.1.1 onto
> TME (
> http://www.abiyo.net/retrocomputing/installingsunos411tosun3emulatedintme08onlinux
> ), and then added in the v9.tar file, and walked through the
> instructions on bootstrapping v9 from SunOS.
>  



> I just cheated by copying the SunOS disk into a new scsi disk so I
> didn’t have to go through the fun of labeling it.  TME emulates a SUN3-
> 150 although the BIOS appears to be for a SUN3-160(?).. so the kernel
> unix.v75 will work when altering the proto0a file.
>  



> TME can be a little (lot!) touchy to get working, but with enough
> persistence you can get it booting the ‘funinthe’ v9 image.
>  



> Sent from Mail[1] for Windows 10



>  





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  Cory Smelosky

  b4 at gewt.net






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