by I have a perfectly fine, albeit rather dinosaur, Sun 4/260 SPARC crate
(anyone remember the old 12 slot vme monsters.....(:+}}.....), which
is in fine shape for its advanced age, but, my boot tapes for it are
dead. I have the SunOS 4.1 boot tape set for the sun4 architecture,
but, the boot tape dies reading past the root fs tarball. The second
tape is fine, and the first 7 files on the boot tape are fine, but that
is as far as I can recover files using various tape tricks folks suggest.
Currently I am running an almost working NetBSD on it, but, I really
would like to get a working set of SunOS boot tapes for it. I have
asked around all over the net, but most folks have launched their
old cartridges into the bit bucket of tapedom. Anyone on this list
have any leads or pointers to a spare set of SunOS 4.1 or 4.1.1
boot tapes that will work on the old sun4 architecture 4/260 class
machines? I would hate to have to nuke the SPARC cpu and drop back
to a 68020/30 cpu in it, but that may be my only recourse if I can't
unearth any surviving tapes from the dustbins. Surely something
still survives.....
Thanks
Bob Keys