Let's take a look inside a Sun SPARCstation 5! For my first #UNIXtober 2021 video, I'm going to start digging into this SPARCstation. The focus will be getting the system to boot into... something. Anything!
00:00 Intro
02:13 13W3 cable
04:57 Tour of the inside of the system
13:35 Is that a hard drive or a leaf blower?
15:57 Programming the NVRAM
19:46 Faffing about trying to boot from the hard drives
23:31 Booting the floppy
24:54 EJECTED!
26:06 Checking the hard drives
27:36 CPU info and memory info
29:12 Closing remarks
Sun NVRAM FAQ: [ Ссылка ]
This is the correct NVRAM chip from Amazon (affiliate link):
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Debian installation instructions for SPARC: [ Ссылка ]
Boot disk image (disk 1): [ Ссылка ]
Root disk image (disk 2): [ Ссылка ]
"Accelerando" courtesy of The Fancy Machines. [ Ссылка ]
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