Tales of Weird Stuff | Inside a SPARCstation 5! #UNIXtober 2021 @TalesofWeirdStuff | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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: kulichki.com/moshkow/TXT/faqsunnvram.txt

This is the correct NVRAM chip from Amazon (affiliate link):

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Debian installation instructions for SPARC: debian.org/releases/woody/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html

Boot disk image (disk 1): web.archive.org/web/20060718181522/http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/images-1.44/rescue.bin

Root disk image (disk 2): web.archive.org/web/20060718181646/http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin

"Accelerando" courtesy of The Fancy Machines. thefancymachines.bandcamp.com/album/shepard-tones

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