Restoring the CMOS on the SunPCi III Cards (PDF 140 KB)
The CMOS on the SunPCi III card is not maintained by backup battery. Rather, the CMOS settings are stored in your emulated drive. This paper discusses how to recover the default CMOS settings in case you inadvertently change them and make your card or drive unstable.
The SunPCi File System Driver (SunFSD) (PDF 301 KB)
One of the major interoperability requirements for the SunPCi package was access to files
resident on the host Solaris Operating System from the SunPCi based Windows Operating
System. This is accomplished by developing a SunPCi network file system driver, known as
the Sun File System Driver, or Sun FSD.
Converting a SunPCi II Diskimage to SunPCi III. (Win2k/WinXp only) (PDF 322 KB)
The Sysprep utility from Microsoft is needed to migrate a Win2K/WinXp disk image from a SunPCi
II platform to the SunPCi III platform. The Sysprep utility lets a user prepare a disk image for
transfer from one machine to another machine.
Converting a PC Diskimage to SunPCi III. (Win2k/WinXp/Win2003 only) (PDF 484 KB)
When new versions of SunPCi hardware are released, users may desire to migrate from their PC
environment to the new SunPCi hardware without having to rebuild the system disks (i.e., reinstall
all applications). Additionally, there are environments where system administrators would like to
create a single "golden" C: drive to distribute to all users. This golden image would contain the OS
as well as any desired applications pre-installed.
What's DOS Do (PDF 304KB)
This SunPCi White Paper discusses a little of the history, details and usage of that DOS operating system, Caldera DOS 7.01, which is bundled with every SunPCi bootable emulated disk image. This paper also details the SunPCi DOS utilities used in conjunction with the installation of Windows NT.
SunPCi as a Software Development Platform (PDF 158 KB)
This paper discusses how the SunPCi platform can be used in a generic software development environment. It draws specific examples from the SunPCi development team's experiences, as all SunPCi Wintel binaries are coded, built and debugged on SunPCi. Furthermore, the paper details the distinct advantages of using SunPCi as a software development platform over a normal PC and over a normal Solaris platform.
Top Ten SunPCi Software Development Tool (PDF 163 KB)
This paper is a list of the top 10 Wintel software development tools used by the SunPCi team. Readers may find this list helpful in determining a tool set for Wintel on Solaris development.
SunPCi Logging (PDF 325 KB)
This paper discusses the SunPCi log file and the interpretation of its contents. The paper also goes into some detail on how a user may be able to collect detailed debug information to aid a SunPCi development team in resolving problems during a SunPCi session.
This article presents some of the benefits gained by using the SunPCi Coprocessor Card in your Sun workstation, in lieu of using a separate computer running the Windows, or other, operating system.
This article gives you some ideas on how to optimize Microsoft Windows performance using SunPCi software. The intent of this article is to give the reader a basic understanding of where performance can be optimized and the impact of these optimizations.
How to Troubleshoot CD-ROM Access Problems in SunPCi (PDF 217 KB)
Having trouble getting to the CD-ROM in SunPCi? This article describes how to troubleshoot that problem. It gives you insight into what configuration files control CD operation and what to look for.
