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Article #12766Re: Help with 4.0 upgrade on Sun 3/260
From: Robert Perlberg
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 06:17
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 06:17
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gwl@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Gerry Lawrence) writes:
> I've just been (conned) into upgrading to 4.0 on our 3/260. We've got two
> Fujitsu 2333's, 8 megs of ram and a 1/4inch tape drive. I can get all the
> way through the suninstall forms up until the "Installation" menu item,
> which immediately gives:
>
> Bus error: core dumped
>
> Ulch! I've tried different disk partitions, different options, to no
> avail. Has anyone had this problem?
We did. Our configuration is a Sun-3/280 with no monitor. We use a
vt100-like terminal on ttya as the console. We were told by Sun to type
something like this:
eval `tset -m:vt100`
before running suninstall. Apparently Sun didn't test suninstall enough
on such a configuration.
Robert Perlberg
Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: perl@step.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Help with 4.0 upgrade on Sun 3/260 Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <1391@number1.step.UUCP> Date: 11 May 89 06:17:24 GMT References: <GWL.89Apr13134832@beach.cis.ufl.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York Lines: 24 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 4 May 89 16:42:46 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 282, message 1 of 19