Sparcstation

sparcstation 5

• if it keeps trying to boot from network, try pressing STOP and A at the same time (and figure out how to fix that) probably: setenv boot-device=disk
• at "ok" prompt, type

boot disk
root
sudo*room

• once its booted up, open a terminal and type

bash # this gives you a reasonable shell, with tab autocomplete and other important functionality
ifconfig le0 plumb
ifconfig le0 up
ifconfig le0 100.64.64.37/22
route add default 100.64.64.1


• but even with the following in /etc/resolv.conf it can't resolve domain names, HOWEVER nslookup works:

domain jackpumpkin
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4


• lol when i went to Netscape and tried to visit http://172.217.164.110 it said "Netscape is unable to locate the server www.google.com. Please check the server name and try again."

maybe this will help make these settings automatic?

had to do this because the eeprom battery was dead

• how to configure mac address which was written using information from amdprophet's notes & http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/faq_nvram.html

• then after that, it didn't come up to the "ok" prompt anymore so I had to

press STOP and A keys at the same time to interrupt boot