[colug-432] SPARC hardware give/take

[Bill Schwanitz]

[quote]
Thanks, BIll, for the tips.
And please understand: deeply appreciate the machines. I blame issues
surrounding my day job for my total lack of progress.
[quote]

No worries, already understood!

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> On 04/03/2015 01:03 PM, Bill Schwanitz wrote:
> > Depending on which of those machines I gave you there could be some
> > interesting stuff. The ultra1 I know worked but had a dead eeprom battery
> > so it'll boot after you type "go". the ultra 30 I think may have been
> dead
> > but I never gave it much time/troublshooting.
>
> Thanks, BIll, for the tips.
> And please understand: deeply appreciate the machines. I blame issues
> surrounding my day job for my total lack of progress.
>
>
> > Both systems you can hook up a serial connection. Assuming you see gunk,
> > just send a ctrl+break to the terminal and you should see the ok prompt.
>
> Serial ... ah, DB25, ... just takes my eyes a little while to re-adjust.
>
>
> > If you have the keyboard, l1+a will bring the box to the ok prompt. From
> > there, boot net ( rarp not dhcp/pxe ) or boot cdrom.
>
> I have two Sun keyboards. (one USB, the other "D" connector) The VGA
> monitor I plugged in was blind (got no signal via the convertor plug I
> used) so I gave up on that route (at the time). Will try again and then
> will try serial if it fails.
>
>
> > hope that helps.
>
> If only for the moral support, you bet! Thanks.
>
> Am still interested in a local SPARC HW link-up. I have this perverse
> interest in creating (Linux) architecture mixes. In my own space, I have
> I386, Power/PPC, S390, and ARM. Now with the router hacks (eg: flashing
> OpenWRT/CeroWRT) would also help to have MIPS. And SPARC is interesting
> because Oracle actually still pushes the hardware (usu w/ Solaris) ...
> and I just *like* it.
>
> Anyone got an Alpha they'd like to bring online and share?
>
> -- R; <><
>
>
>
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