[OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

[jason matthews]

i seem to recall that there are solaris 8 branded zones. if memory serves from one of the opensolaris conferences you can just untar your current setup in zone and boot it.

 pick up a niagra or something from ebay -- less power more juice low cost.

j.

On Nov 22, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:

> FWIW If it is the NVRAM, it's probably not a big problem if you can get the replacement part.  I went through this mid 90's w/o any problems. Don't actually recall what the system was as I had several then, but the 4/110 seems a likely candidate.  I'm pretty sure I was at the "won't boot" stage when I discovered the problem.  
> 
> On the other hand, I think the cost of electricity is a pretty compelling argument for system replacement.
> 
> 
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> On Fri, 11/22/13, James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:46 PM
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> On 11/22/2013 5:45 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> My hunch would be a dead battery on CMOS, or whatever
> the analog of
>> one would be. Any ideas where it might be located, and
> what model 
>> it is (like CR2032 on Intel-compatibles)? Any more
> ideas?
> 
> Ouch.  If it is the NVRAM/clock battery that's going
> bad, you'll soon
> have a brick on your hands.  It won't be long until it
> starts saying
> "the IDPROM contents are invalid" and refuses to boot at
> all.
> 
> I would use the remaining time to plan a transition.  I
> know it's not
> what you want to hear.  But there are ETL companies out
> there who
> specialize in understanding old databases and transitioning
> the
> workload onto modern, faster, cheaper, better machines.
> 
> Barring that, here's the FAQ about those old NVRAM devices:
> 
> http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq
> 
> I'd suggest trying www.mouser.com, www.jameco.com, or
> www.digikey.com.
> 
> Unless you're operating a hardware museum, there's probably
> not a lot
> of call to keep a 16 year old system consuming 1.664KW of
> power.  It's
> time to put the old girl down.  :-/
> 
> - -- 
> James Carlson         42.703N
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