[EdLUG] Old Sun "Ultra 10" workstation up for grabs

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Pain me intrested....where in marchmount?

On 7 Jun 2017 20:49, "Edinburgh Linux Users Group" <edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk>
wrote:

> A little more info: I did just try connecting the VGA output directly
> from the box to the VGA input on an LCD monitor (bypassing my KVM box)
> and that showed the Sun BIOS boot stuff apparently trying to netboot.
> There seemed to be some message about NVRAM self test failed (error
> U13?) and something about IDPROM contents invalid... guessing it may
> have succumbed to that common affliction of machines of a certain age:
> the onboard battery finally running down (and indeed googling the errors
> leads to https://youtu.be/ql9xo_zhNy0 ).  Apparently this leads to the
> machine losing its MAC address, which is why my DHCP server wasn't
> serving anything up to it.
>
> Anyway, that's the last I'm doing with it.  All unplugged and off to the
> dump in a few days if no antiquarians fancy it.
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 17:13 +0100, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> > Just on the offchance anyone has any interest before I cart this off to
> > the ewaste skip at the dump...
> >
> > Sun Ultra 10 workstation (squat tower case, not "pizzabox" style).
> > - Think processor was over 400MHz; I forget how much RAM or disk
> > - Creator 3D graphics board.
> > - Adapter widget for the proprietary Sun graphics port to VGA.
> > - Sun keyboard (implies US layout, I think) and 3-button mouse
> > (roller-ball based, not optical).
> > - More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_5/10
> >
> > I was successfully running Debian's SPARC releases on it (including a
> > lightweight X11 desktop) up until a few Debian versions back, but
> > stopped having much reason to use it when VMs on my amd64 boxes got good
> > and I retired my last CRT screen... and found the adapter widget didn't
> > seem to want to drive my LCD's VGA input (at least not through the KVM
> > box I use).  For a while I carried on using it headless by ssh... but it
> > was last powered up and logged into it quite a few years ago.
> >
> > Just powered it up for first time in ages now and while it sounds
> > healthy enough, I can't ssh into it and don't have any way of seeing the
> > video output.  Maybe just my DHCP setup has suffered bitrot.  Maybe I
> > tried a headless upgrade to the next Debian version and something broke.
> > Maybe it's sitting there at an fsck prompt.  It's been too long to
> > remember what I was last doing with it; either way I've now no interest
> > in sinking any time into trying to recover it.  I think I originally
> > installed Debian on it using tftp and the SunOS' BIOS' option to
> > netboot, but repeating that'd need being able to see the console.
> >
> > Can't imagine this being of any practical value to anyone, unless they
> > have the patience to ebay it (whole or in bits).  Might be a nice
> > nostalgia trip for someone though :^)
> >
> > Free to collect from Marchmont if interested.
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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