Re: recovering files from SunOS dump tapes
There are SunOS 4.1.1 downloads available on www.sun3arc.org. Sun has been
informed about them but never protested (they even originated from a
Sun-employe, iirc), so it seems to be "legal". It appears to be able to
run on some Sparcstations, though I'm not sure if it actually supports
SS5. BUt could be worth a try.
Tim.
On 21 Apr 2001, Kelsey Jordahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Linux on a Sparc 5 that previously had SunOS
> 4.1.3. The installation was straightforward, but in the process I
> managed to trash my SunOS partition as well. Not that big a deal, in
> that I don't need to dual boot or anything, but I would like to set up
> SunOS emulation, so I need some files from SunOS, /usr/lib/ld.so and
> so on. I have backup tapes of my SunOS system, but they are in SunOS
> dump format, and I have not been able to read them with Linux or
> Solaris 8 restore programs. I don't have any original SunOS install
> media.
>
> Is ther any way to recover these files from the dump tapes without a
> SunOS system? Any other options to get the files necessary for
> emulation? I know that Sun has free downloads of Solaris 8 now, but
> do they have downloads of SunOS 4 anywhere? It wasn't obvious on
> their website.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelsey
>
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