<div dir="ltr">Rick,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>hope that helps. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">friends --<br>
<br>
I have a (Linux) project that wants a SPARC box for build. Had a working<br>
machine with a bad memory stick. Then picked up some additional machines<br>
from Bill Schwanitz (circa 17 months ago). But I'm so rusty with actual<br>
*Sun* keyboards that I have not been able to wedge Linux onto them. Am<br>
lost w/r/t knowing when I am seeing a hardware problem (ie with the<br>
machine) or peripherals or software. (All of them ran Solaris at some<br>
point; most probably still do ... if they could only boot.)<br>
<br>
Am willing to trade the lot for >one< working machine. (And I can offer<br>
Linux-for-SPARC in several flavors, including my own, for what that's<br>
worth.) This might also involve an hour or three of guidance.<br>
<br>
-- R; <><<br>
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