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Internet Explorer 4 for Unix - Solaris 2.6

shogo2040shogo2040
edited June 2019 in Software
  1. Follow this tutorial to get Solaris 2.6 up and running:
  2. https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris/overview
  3. Download ie4setup.gz at https://browsers.evolt.org/browsers/archive/ie/solaris/4.0/
  4. Gunzip before transferring it over to solaris 2.6 via hotjava browser and run a local web server to serve any file to solaris via http.

Here's the end result.

Something looks off.

  • The "e" in the top right looks kind of greenish.. should be blue.
  • The Icons on the button are not transparent and have white boxes around them.

Maybe I'm in 256 color mode instead of 16 million color mode?

Comments

  • roboboxrobobox

    Did anyone make a Firefox build for 2.6? That would work with more modern websites than IE/Netscape.

  • shogo2040shogo2040

    For 2.6, I couldn't find one. :(

    The oldest build I found was for 2.8:
    https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/1.0/contrib/

  • roboboxrobobox
    edited June 2019

    Solaris 2.8 is Solaris 8. I already knew they had builds for Solaris 8. Hmm, maybe check an older Mozilla build?

    EDIT: Here’s a 1.2 beta build for Solaris 7:
    https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/moz-sol/1.2a-02-09-25/

  • shogo2040shogo2040

    1) To get beautiful 24 bit True color, add the -g and tcx options as follows to qemu:

    qemu-system-sparc -vga tcx -g 1024x768x24 -M SS-5 -m 256 -drive file=sparc.qcow2,bus=0,unit=0,media=disk

    The tutorial on:

    https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris/overview

    does not mention this detail at the time of this comment.

    2) Also with the tutorial at adafruite.com, my DNS wasn't working. I may have fumbled up the commands in the tutorial. But thats ok. Simply copy the /etc/nsswitch.conf.old to the empty /etc/nswitch.conf. Then edit one line by adding dns to the hosts: files line as below:

    hosts: files dns

    take care not to edit the other lines.

    Thats all! Enjoy for True color solaris 2.6 !!!

  • seargesearge
    Hello!
    What "Gunzip before transferring it over to solaris 2.6 via hotjava browser and run a local web server to serve any file to solaris via http" exactly mean?

    Hotjava doesn't work for me, but I tryed to ping google through terminal and it works.

    Did you know how to connect share folder from local machine to qemu sparc?
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