[rescue] Ultra 1 NVram battery - WAS::::Re: FYI regarding FrameMaker 5.5

[Jerry Kemp]

Ultra 1 NVram batteries

Many lifetimes ago, I was working for a (small-to-medium) business, and at some point in that employment, my boss had somewhere 
acquired a 5-foot high pile of Ultra1 && Ultra 1E systems.   Had plenty of drives, and spare drives, and their memory was maxed out.

We had plans to use these internally for DNS servers, FTP servers, etc.

All these systems had dead NVram batteries, and when booted, would come up with a MAC address of all zero's, otherwise, they worked 
fine.  My Yahoo-Fu was off or something, as I could never find a place to purchase new NVram's for these boxes.  Also, there were 
several tutorials on the Internet to cut open an existing NVRAM and add an external battery, but I wasn't interested in that either.

What worked for me was to add a shell script, in the Sys V run control scripts, I believe, /etc/rc2.d/S99somethinghere

That would add a MAC address to the ethernet interface at each boot.  This worked great, and took these (Ultra 1) system thru this 
phase of their life.  Who knows where they are now, but most Sun systems rarely ever die.

No NewsPrinter experience though, sorry.

Jerry


On 26/03/18 23:28, remichael wrote:
> Jerry,
> 
>      About 2 months ago, I loaded the FM 5.5 onto my Ultra 1 running
> 
> Solaris 9.  The Serial/Registration Number is included on the CD sleeve.
> 
> The CD sleeve also lists WIndows 95/Windows NT, MacIntosh, and Unix.
> 
> And under Unix it lists requirements for SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX,
> 
> and IRIX.  This seems to imply that it could be loaded onto all these
> 
> systems.  Since the NVram battery is dead on my Ultra1, I did not
> 
> try configuring internet access.  So I don't know if it would try to register
> 
> itself.  When I last had it working (10 years ago in NC) I had a NewsPrinter 20
> 
> to use with it.  But the rollers of that printer turned to jelly by the time I moved
> 
> to IL.  A few months ago I had lunch with several former colleagues who
> 
> complained that they still could not produce decent diagrams and drawings
> 
> with MS stuff.  How they longed for FM.
> 
> 
> Bob