Hardware

Hardware

[Mike]

I'm trying to get a Plan 9 network running at school, however, it's 
been a while and I don't know if it will run on the hardware I have 
available.  Currently I have a couple of Sun 4's and some Sun 350s.

As well I have a bunch of disckless machines which I would like to 
use a dumb terminals, however I am unsure as to how I can boot them 
with a boot disk.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hardware

[miller]

forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk says:

> i've successfully used SLC, ELC and SS1 out-of-the-box.

The IPX also works as terminal or cpu server, but not as a file server
(at least mine wouldn't) without making a one-line change to the serial 
port driver [copied from the equivalent place in /sys/src/9/port/devscc.c]: 

diff /n/cdrom/sys/src/fs/ss/scc.c scc.c
164c164
< 	sp->sticky[11] = TxClockBR | RxClockBR | TRxCOutBR | TRxCOI;
---
> 	sp->sticky[11] = TxClockBR | RxClockBR | TRxCOutBR /*| TRxCOI*/;

-- Richard Miller

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[forsyth]

>>Sun4's run out-of-the-box. The FAQ will direct you to two sources of

careful: only certain sparc models are supported, and
the list doesn't include the VME-based Sun4 servers.

i've successfully used SLC, ELC and SS1 out-of-the-box.
others are listed, too (SS2, SS1+, IPC, uniprocessor SS10), but i haven't tried them.

the LX/Classic ones aren't supported, because they are
different again, but if you've got an LX or Classic, and the source, i can
give you my changes to get our LX/Classic models
going on the old academic release.  i didn't update the changes
for the current (book+cd) release.

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[Bengt]

In article <199701240740.CAA04462@istar.ca>, delerium@istar.CA (Mike Roth) writes:
> I'm trying to get a Plan 9 network running at school, however, it's 
> been a while and I don't know if it will run on the hardware I have 
> available.  Currently I have a couple of Sun 4's and some Sun 350s.
> 

Sun4's run out-of-the-box. The FAQ will direct you to two sources of
modifications to the 68020 port that will run on Sun3-50.

> As well I have a bunch of disckless machines which I would like to 
> use a dumb terminals, however I am unsure as to how I can boot them 
> with a boot disk.  Any help would be appreciated.

To run diskless machines you can boot over the network. Either use the
standard Sun netboot system (see the FAQ for the specifiq names that
must be used) or you can compile the generic Unix bootp that is
included on the CD-ROM (and use any names you want).

-- 
Best Wishes, Bengt
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