Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: miranda!mc@moc.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Caplinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: warning about SparcStation configuration Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1638@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 24 Sep 89 19:49:49 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 11 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 131, message 11 of 11 If you order a machine without the (basically useless) 3.5" floppy, but with internal disks, don't expect to get the OS preinstalled on the internal disks, as the disk hardware isn't even installed by Sun for this configuration. I have two useless SparcStations right now because, of course, I didn't get the OS media for machines that supposedly came with it already installed. And to think I was hoping this would be the first Sun ever to run right out of the box. Another screw from Mountain View... Mike