[SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes

Thu Nov 7 15:45:14 CST 2002

OK, I'm gonna stretch here - anyone tried Solaris 8 or even 9 on the 3GX? 
Mine is back home in Texas right now and I am in Africa, so I can't try
it. Anyone have any insight? I'm going to try it unless someone has a
good reason not to.
Thanks,
Thomas
> Hi Thomas,
>> Just some follow up...we were using our 3GXs to teach the Unix version
> of our software. We had five (5) units that were pretty much steady on
> the road. I had to use the Sun Solaris 7 CDs because my predecessor had
> hidden the Tadpole disks away and nobody knew where...I found them
> after about six months. So for that time period the units ran on the
> straight Sun software. Our road classes usually run a week at a time so
> the laptops would be on 24 hours a day for that time period. Never ran
> into any overheating
> problems...although I have heard rumors about that issue. Actually my
> biggest problem was getting the instructors to shut down the machines
> properly (and students changing the root password...arrrghh).
>> Hope this helps.
>> Pat
>>>>>>>>From: thomas.cameron at CameronTech.com
>>Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>>To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SparkBook Woes
>>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:49:23 -0600 (CST)
>>>>Has anyone else loaded Solaris 7 on a 3GX? I heard that there were
>> serious problems doing this - like overheating or something.
>>>>Thomas
>>>> > I have used Sun's Solaris 7 CDs to do installs on the 3GX. The only
>> driver I found I had to download from Tadpole was one for switching
>> to an external video display...everything else worked like a charm.
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