[TUHS] Re: SunOS 4 in 2024

[Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 17:27, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/13/24 3:12 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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?
>
> -Henry
>
> Not an answer to the question, but on a tangent...
>
> 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:
>
> https://defcon.no/sysadm/playing-with-sunos-4-1-4-on-qemu/
>
> OpenWindows 3... wow... works great on my Mint instance. Now, if I could
> just remember how commands work on SunOS :).
>

Thanks Will!  You may also be interested in
https://john-millikin.com/running-sunos-4-in-qemu-sparc 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.

-Henry

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