Re: Getting Started with SUNny
> To add insult to injury...being all on 1 105 MB drive (some of which
> is swap space)....there are NO MAN PAGES and no other docs.
> It is just me and my broken system.
I believe manpages are an extra purchase when buying SunOS.
> ok...soo...
> from unsmae -a I get:
> SunOS medusa 4.1.3_U1 1 SUN4C
>
> It has 24 MB of ram...now onto the problems...
> I type fdformat
> it asks me to put a floppy in the drive...I do...
> then it complains...errors... says something is wrong
> if I halt the system and issue eject the disk ejects.
Ok, well, that could be several things.
> from the boot prom (same place that I eject the floppy) I can
> probe-scsi and see both the boot drive and my new 1 gig (boot drive
> is ID 3...new drive is ID 6)
>
> Back in SunOS I type format...it says "searching for disks"
> then comes up with only 1 disk...which is the one that was booted off from.
Try stop-a then probe-scsi (I _THINK_.. It's been a while) and see what it
says.
> WHat do I need to do to use this disk? I was told i needed to partition it
> what do I use to do that?
SunOS/Solaris is fun.
> any ideas apreciated...im really new to Suns...I wanna get thi sup so badly
>
> -Steve
Not too hard. :> I wish I had a sparc.
-Kysh
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