Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: SunOS 4.0.3 Sun-4c and compatability with Sun-4/260 systems Message-ID: <1690@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 12:30:30 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Keywords: Miscellaneous Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 135, message 8 of 14 In article <1653@brazos.Rice.edu> jensen@bessel.eedsp.gatech.edu (P. Allen Jensen) writes: Ok, we got our sparcstations and our OS but there is this one problem - the SunOS for the SPARCstation is different than for the other Sun-4 systems. I don't want to have 2 different arch. on our boot server (the SPARC's are diskless). Anyone know how to merge the SPARCstation OS and normal Sun-4 OS to get a single OS that supports both ? Good luck. Actually there should only be different versions of the programs that live in /usr/kvm. Other that programs that need to muck around with kernel data structures, everything else should run on either architecture. Now, if Sun's installation scripts are not smart enough to handle this... We just recieved a few 4/60s the other day but no media! Not sure if we, or Sun dropped the ball on this one. Dan Ehrlich| "A message is not a message until the The Pennsylvania State University | rules for interpreting it are in the Department of Computer Science | hands of the reciever." University Park, PA 16802 | --Apollo Belvedere Smith