<div dir="auto"><div>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....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'd like to vote deleting that previous email from the public archive<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">// Sent from a mobile device. Brevity and typos may transpire</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Jun 2017 1:02 p.m., "Edinburgh Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm at /redacted/.<br>
<br>
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<br>
few days.<br>
<br>
Would have replied privately but just realized the list seems to strip<br>
any trace of senders email address!<br>
Tim<br>
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On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 21:12 +0100, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:<br>
> Pain me intrested....where in marchmount?<br>
><br>
> On 7 Jun 2017 20:49, "Edinburgh Linux Users Group"<br>
> <<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> A little more info: I did just try connecting the VGA output<br>
> directly<br>
> from the box to the VGA input on an LCD monitor (bypassing my<br>
> KVM box)<br>
> and that showed the Sun BIOS boot stuff apparently trying to<br>
> netboot.<br>
> There seemed to be some message about NVRAM self test failed<br>
> (error<br>
> U13?) and something about IDPROM contents invalid... guessing<br>
> it may<br>
> have succumbed to that common affliction of machines of a<br>
> certain age:<br>
> the onboard battery finally running down (and indeed googling<br>
> the errors<br>
> leads to <a href="https://youtu.be/ql9xo_zhNy0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ql9xo_zhNy0</a> ). Apparently this<br>
> leads to the<br>
> machine losing its MAC address, which is why my DHCP server<br>
> wasn't<br>
> serving anything up to it.<br>
><br>
> Anyway, that's the last I'm doing with it. All unplugged and<br>
> off to the<br>
> dump in a few days if no antiquarians fancy it.<br>
><br>
> Tim<br>
><br>
> On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 17:13 +0100, Edinburgh Linux Users Group<br>
> wrote:<br>
> > Just on the offchance anyone has any interest before I cart<br>
> this off to<br>
> > the ewaste skip at the dump...<br>
> ><br>
> > Sun Ultra 10 workstation (squat tower case, not "pizzabox"<br>
> style).<br>
> > - Think processor was over 400MHz; I forget how much RAM or<br>
> disk<br>
> > - Creator 3D graphics board.<br>
> > - Adapter widget for the proprietary Sun graphics port to<br>
> VGA.<br>
> > - Sun keyboard (implies US layout, I think) and 3-button<br>
> mouse<br>
> > (roller-ball based, not optical).<br>
> > - More info at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_5/10" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Ultra_5/10</a><br>
> ><br>
> > I was successfully running Debian's SPARC releases on it<br>
> (including a<br>
> > lightweight X11 desktop) up until a few Debian versions<br>
> back, but<br>
> > stopped having much reason to use it when VMs on my amd64<br>
> boxes got good<br>
> > and I retired my last CRT screen... and found the adapter<br>
> widget didn't<br>
> > seem to want to drive my LCD's VGA input (at least not<br>
> through the KVM<br>
> > box I use). For a while I carried on using it headless by<br>
> ssh... but it<br>
> > was last powered up and logged into it quite a few years<br>
> ago.<br>
> ><br>
> > Just powered it up for first time in ages now and while it<br>
> sounds<br>
> > healthy enough, I can't ssh into it and don't have any way<br>
> of seeing the<br>
> > video output. Maybe just my DHCP setup has suffered bitrot.<br>
> Maybe I<br>
> > tried a headless upgrade to the next Debian version and<br>
> something broke.<br>
> > Maybe it's sitting there at an fsck prompt. It's been too<br>
> long to<br>
> > remember what I was last doing with it; either way I've now<br>
> no interest<br>
> > in sinking any time into trying to recover it. I think I<br>
> originally<br>
> > installed Debian on it using tftp and the SunOS' BIOS'<br>
> option to<br>
> > netboot, but repeating that'd need being able to see the<br>
> console.<br>
> ><br>
> > Can't imagine this being of any practical value to anyone,<br>
> unless they<br>
> > have the patience to ebay it (whole or in bits). Might be a<br>
> nice<br>
> > nostalgia trip for someone though :^)<br>
> ><br>
> > Free to collect from Marchmont if interested.<br>
> > Tim<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
><br>
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