Sparcstation

sparcstation 5

• To get the Ethernet port to work, you must enable setenv tpe-link-test? true
• The NVRAM chip's battery has been replaced similar to the image in this reddit post
• if it keeps trying to boot from network, try pressing STOP and A at the same time, and to fix that, at the "ok" prompt type "setenv boot-device disk" and "setenv diag-device disk" and "setenv tpe-link-test? true" and then "nvstore"
• at "ok" prompt, type

boot disk
root
sudo*room

• once its booted up, open a terminal and type

./netup

• /netup is just this:
  

ifconfig le0 plumb
ifconfig le0 100.64.64.37/22
ifconfig le0 up
route add default 100.64.64.1


• we the following is in /etc/resolv.conf

domain jackpumpkin
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4


• and did this

cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf

maybe this will help make these settings automatic?

see this email thread

echo jackpumpkin > /etc/hostname.leo

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
• The actual last three bytes of the MAC address are on a sticker on the NVRAM chip and should be entered in the above instructions, both places in the instructions above must match!

• 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