Hi Dave, Have you already looked here: https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/Media/Sun/ There are some extra ISO images there.
- Peter On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 8:44 AM dave--- via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Sun Ultra Sparc 5 workstation still in working order. With two > hard drives, floppy, CD. > > "Back in the day" I would leave it idling in the basement running a Samba > server > But after some power failures and my poor responses to fsck, I managed to > end up with a corrupted name_to_major file on the primary boot disk > > I've recently tried to get the software in working order, to recover any > useful files, and sell the system. > I replaced the TOY chip. And used a Solaris 9 CD to boot the system. > > I tried various ways to rebuild that file, but failed. > Eventually, I asked the Solaris CD to rebuild the system slice. (I only > really care about the data slices) > It decided on the system slice on the second disk in the system,(which > also had an older version of Solaris on it) and I can now boot that. > > So now that I have a running basic Solaris 9 system, I'm looking for any > of the Supplemental software disks with any useful tools on them. It > seems that the old time Sun websites are drying up and this is too old for > the ones I found to carry. > Does anyone know any current online sources I could get these disk images? > > Thanks, > Dave. >
