[rescue] Fixing the NVRAM battery in the SS5

Steve Sandau ssandau at gwi.net
Fri Jan 6 19:10:55 CST 2006


>>The SS5 is the slowest of my three Suns (GEDDIT?!), which includes an  
>>Ultra 2 with 2 300MHz CPUs, 640 MB of RAM, and a 24-bit framebuffer, and  
>>an Ultra 5 with 1024 MB of RAM and a 440 MHz CPU.  The two fastest boxes  
>>run Solaris 10, but the SS5 is on Debian Sarge right now.  I haven't tried  
>>OpenBSD on it yet, mostly because you either need to buy the CD or have  
>>the box hooked up to the Internet.
> 
> 
> Try NetBSD.  The CD images are downloadable, even as bittorrents.
> 

Or for OpenBSD you can download the .tgz packages, burn them to a CD, 
then boot from a floppy and point the install to the CD.

Steve



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