[vcf-midatlantic] Sun 3/60 lives again

Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Fri Jan 4 09:22:33 EST 2019


    Thanks Andy, I hadn't seen that project.  I'll give it a try when I get the 
chance.

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, dillera at gmail.com wrote:

> Please look at this:
>
> https://github.com/halfmanhalftaco/sunboot <https://github.com/halfmanhalftaco/sunboot>
>
> I've used his irixboot project to boot and install about 4 different SGI boxes with 3 versions of IRIX.
>
> I've been meaning to use this for a sun but haven't gotten around to it.
>
> You should try that for netbooting via serial.
>
> -andy
>
>
>
>> On Jan 3, 2019, at 11:55 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:35 PM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic
>> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>>    This has been on my TODO list for years, so it's a good way to start off
>>> the new year.  I have a Sun 3/60 with 24MB and CG4 video which I've been
>>> meaning to set up as a diskless client from my Linux server.
>>
>> Nicely done!  I also have a Sun 3/60 that's a long-term project.
>>
>>> Until I get a
>>> keyboard adapter cobbled together for a Type 4 keyboard, I'm using a serial
>>> console.
>>
>> I managed to score a Type 3 keyboard last year.  Somewhere I have a
>> Type 3 Optical Mouse (with the modular jack) somewhere, but I will
>> probably have to fashion a Type 4 adapter to get a working mouse.
>>
>>>    There's a document floating around which describes one user's efforts to
>>> netboot his 3/60:
>>>
>>> http://sites.inka.de/pcde/help/sunos_network_boot.html
>>
>> Handy.  Thanks!
>>
>>>    I used that as a starting point, but it was written in 2004 so there are
>>> additional steps required.  For one thing, bootparamd is no longer included in
>>> Fedora Linux (since FC25), so I had to make some changes to the FC24 SRPM for
>>> bootparamd to get it compiled and repackaged for FC28.  Also, FC28 by default
>>> has NFS version 2 disabled so you have to change options in /etc/nfs.conf to
>>> enable UDP and version 2.
>>
>> Very good to know.  I'm not much of a Fedora user (I lean towards
>> RHEL/CentOS for large boxes and Mint for laptops) but it's handy to
>> know what's missing or turned off these days.
>>
>> Thanks for sharing!
>>
>> -ethan
>
>

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