[rescue] All this talk of X Terminals has me wondering...

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, I  wrote:
> > Not that I've seen ALL or even MOST, but AFIK, the ROMS checked a bit in
> > the battery backed up ram. Set one way it was an SS5, set the other it was
> > an X-terminal and SCSI did not work.

James Lockwood wrote: 

> This is only the case with the SparcClassic X.  The Sparc Xterminal 1
> used a different board than every other Sun system.

Thanks, I did not know about this one. 

> With a bit of work, you can use them as regular systems.  You're stuck
> with either netbooting or putting a SCSI card into the Sbus slot, though.

Netbooting is good. Netbooting is your friend. But never, never, never try to
netboot a system that does not use BootP or DHCP from a Linux system.

Early* SUN machines netbooted by using reverse ARP, which is one of those
things that works on Linux until you try to use it. 

Geoff.

* The ones that I've tried were an SS1 and ELC's. So I assume that includes all
of the SUN2/SUN3's IPC's, IPX's, etc.

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