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2024-03-23 19:23:50

Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on Nostr: I finally got my Sun SPARCstation LX to boot an OS (still connected via serial btw)! ...

I finally got my Sun SPARCstation LX to boot an OS (still connected via serial btw)!
I've managed to get a floppy drive working, also worked out the NVRAM settings for the system, which holds until it reboots (battery mod soon).
Here's Red Hat Linux 4.2 (1997) booting from floppy over serial:

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