[sclug] Sun SPARC help

[Hamlesh Motah]

If you have any luck with this, would anyone mind me borrowing it
afterwards?

I've inherited 2 SunSparc Classics and would love to get FreeBSD or
OpenBSD going on them.  They'd make lovely backup mail and dns servers
:)

Cheers.

Hamlesh Motah.
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-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Neil Owens
Sent: 20 November 2004 13:23
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: [sclug] Sun SPARC help


I've inherited 2 old SPARC IPX boxes, one of which runs (Debian) just
dandy.

The other won't 'boot' through the serial port.  It makes all of the
start-up noises like the working one does, but I don't get any output
from the serial port.  I plugged in a keyboard but 'STOP-A' doesn't do
anything. It's not worth me spending ?20+ on a video adaptor, so

Can anyone lend me a Sun video to 15 pin VGA adaptor so I can see if
it's booting through Video only

Or

Does anyone have any suggestions before I send it to the local dump?

TIA

Neil

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