[rescue] Stupid question time...

[Andy Wallis]

On 2025-01-22 11:01, Dave McGuire via rescue wrote:
> On 1/22/25 10:48, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue wrote:
>> The hassle I'm running into is finding older archives that still have
>> the SunOS make/configure information in them. I've got Emacs 20.7,
>> bash 1.14 & kermit4f.85  for example. Other "old versions" that aren't
>> total time bombs would be nice. That resolve+ mentioned the other day
>> too.
> 
>   Time bombs?  I can't say I've seen anything like that.
> 
>   Finding stuff is easy, you just have to look for the releases that 
> were current in the mid-late 1990s.  It's all out there.
> 
>> There is a disk image for Sparc 4C (IPX IIRC) with GCC & etc on it. > 
>> Will that play nice on 4M under 4.1.4?
> 
>   An OS disk image?  No, a sun4c kernel will not boot on a sun4m 
> processor.  Actually the bootstrap code is even different between the 
> different kernel architectures.
> 
>            -Dave
I've got a SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m image at 
http://9600bps.org/qemu/index.html. You just have to convert it from 
QCOW2 to raw if you want to use it in a real sun4m machine. I'm in the 
process of making an updated sun4c and sum4m SunOS 4.1.4 image with 
DiskSuite 1.0 and some other goodies. I was able to find an InfoDoc of 
how to configure it under Sun4m. I'm glad that some of the commands from 
later versions of DiskSuite and its concept held up over the years. I 
want to toss Mosaic and early Netscape on there as well as some decent 
compilers and games.
-Andy Wallis