so a couple of months ago we um did a
video on the old sun 3160 that i found
lying around in the department and
trying to get it to work and we sort of
left it to the point where it was making
an awful racket
now we worked out that the noise was
actually coming from the old hard disks
which sound more like sanding devices
rather than actually harder
so i suspect
they're shot so we took them out and if
we turn it on now
it's still noisy but it's a it's got a
less of a sort of angle grinder effect
to it and we've actually now got it to
the point where short of installing the
operating system is still booting what
we've done
is
running in it now one of these which is
a scuzzy emulator which uses a micro sd
card to act as the hard disk so i've set
that up
to actually act as a hardest interesting
the way i've set that up is i use an
emulator on the mac to emulate the
hardware and install the first part of
the operating system on that so that's
sort of working now
and i can get it as far
as booting and get it to boot into the
preliminary stages and even get it able
to ping out onto the local network which
of course is connected to the internet
so it's actually
on the internet so we're just booting it
up using the falcon as the terminal
emulator and in a second
hopefully it will ask me to enter the
menus
and i should be able to get it going
so i'm now into the boom menus i'm going
to come out
of these and return to the monitor and
i'm now going to boot it
off the scuzzy emulator
so boot sd naught comma 1 comma naught
so it's starting to boot i think
oops nope
so it's actually now trying to do a
network boot which is not going to do if
you remember the right boot command we
can actually get it to boot and you'll
see it's now booting into scuzzy disk
one which is what's being emulated
communications have changed it's now
moved from
one serial protocol to another so i just
have to
change the settings for the port
to seven bits rather than eight bits
and i'm now at the installer prompt i
haven't installed the whole operating
system yet but this machine's booting so
it's just a matter now of installing
everything and it would work and if we
look
the internet connection is
up so we can actually set this
with
a actual ip address so we can say we
want ifconfig
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ie0 to be up
and let me 23.5
net mask
set that up
and it's not picking anything up so
obviously i need to plug the other end
of the network cable in
helps if you plug your internet
connection in
so we're not going to plug the internet
connection in under the floor
uh we'll pull that one out oops that was
the
cloud
do you want to check these lights
flashing on the uh little box so we've
actually got a little converter box here
which is converting the
10 base t
coming out of that into the aui
connector for the sun and we've got a
link
and we've got power and so on
so hopefully i should be able to bring
that up
i'm going to play myself
ifconfig
ie0
has got an ip address now
so hopefully
i should be able to ping
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the router
i've got no ping installed
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telnet
if i have any ip
stuff
what do i have this is a very minimal
installation so far we normally install
the whole thing so i don't even know if
i've got anything i can use to test the
internet connection
not much there
tftp perhaps
nope
nope but if i do go to another machine
assuming this isn't the one i unplugged
um
i should be able to ping
that ip address no i can't maybe see the
machine i unplugged
it worked the other day anyway
so that's now up and running
nothing getting there
we just killed it
it's almost like the adapters died
no joy so no joy there um it seems
actually that the converter seems to all
the lights have gone off on it so um
not quite sure
what's happening there we'll keep her
restore restoration and keep you posted
i think the next step we just try this
on another device see if we can get this
working and then see whether it's the
fault with this
or whether it's a fault with the actual
which is the power going to it but it
doesn't seem to work any of the network
card
so i suspect something wrong with this
which is encrypted once with k3 it's
encrypted another time with k2
and it's encrypted a final time
with k1 now let's think about what that
means um it means that only this
it's a dirty job but someone's got to do
it