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[[File:Sun_Ultra_1.jpg|300px|Sun Ultra 1 under the watchful eye of Monsieur Klimt]]
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Booting from CDROM seems difficult. Netbooting work since blathijs replaced the NVRAM battery.
Booting from CDROM seems difficult. Netbooting works since blathijs replaced the NVRAM battery.
== Specs ==
== Specs ==
* 128MB ram
* 128MB ram

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Sun Ultra 1 under the watchful eye of Monsieur Klimt Booting from CDROM seems difficult. Netbooting works since blathijs replaced the NVRAM battery.

Specs

  • 128MB ram
  • 2.2GB harddisk
  • UltraSPARC 167MHz
  • Debian 6

Todo

  • Add machine to LDAP
  • Dist-upgrade to debian 7????

Netboot tips and tricks

On some machine in the network

  • Run a rarp server
  • Put this line in /etc/ethers (MAC address of Ultra 1 and a free ip address in our range)

8:0:20:82:ca:1a 192.168.1.200

  • Put a line in /etc/hosts with hostname/ip

On the TFTP server

  • Download boot.img from Debian (Debian 6 works for this machine, Debian 7 doesn't)
  • Check /var/log/daemon.log for the filename requested by our Ultra 1
  • Rename boot.img or make a symlink

Now the installer should start