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

Thu Jun 8 12:13:48 UTC 2017

Indeed the address situation remains a problem - sharing your own rmail
address in this instance, or a social media link, would have been
preferable so that others could PM you instead....

I'd like to vote deleting that previous email from the public archive

// Sent from a mobile device. Brevity and typos may transpire

On 8 Jun 2017 1:02 p.m., "Edinburgh Linux Users Group" <
edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

I'm at /redacted/.

I'm in for the rest of this afternoon; otherwise best to call
/redacted/ first to check someone's around but there should be for the next
few days.

Would have replied privately but just realized the list seems to strip
any trace of senders email address!
Tim

On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 21:12 +0100, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> 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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