First boot of pre-installed Solaris 7 on a brand new old stock 1998 Sun Ultra 5 workstation
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- I recently bought a BNIB Sun Ultra 5 workstation. This is a video of the initial boot from disk process to configure the pre-installed image of Solaris 7. Note that in the 14 years since the machine was manufactured (November 1998) the NVRAM backup battery has died, hence the need to manually specify the boot device. Best viewed in full HD.
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The good old Java and Solaris logos. Until Oracle came and screwed everything.
4:38 an original vaporwave masterpiece.
That hard drive sounds like a grinding wheel in a blade sharpening shop.
that noise takes me right back, as does that funky font the Sun uses at boot
I started with Solaris 2.6 and Sco Unix , ah, the memories! The phone never rang, it was just us in the datacenter, cold and humming servers.
Thank you so much for posting a video that actually allows me to see a SunOS system booting. Using debian and reading about sun is not the same as seeing the original system from 1998. Thanks again.
Hi, many thanks for that, I appreciate the comment. As it happens my replacement NVRAM chip arrived from HK this morning and I was able to swap out the old one. Needed to do a set-defaults to clear some weird issues, since then it has been great! Regards, Mark.
Do they still make these or was it a NOS part?
I thought they all were long gone, and found it easier to just hack my own to accept a normal coin cell battery...
I've got a "special" Sun in storage. It's an Ultra AXe. Sun for a period of time made ATX motherboards that were pretty much an Ultra 5 but in ATX format and sold them to integrators. It has PS/2 ports also instead of the Sun proprietary ports. It was first supported by a late release of Solaris 7. If you install the early release, the mouse and keyboard don't work.
The later ones U25 and U45 are also ATX and used PC components (power supply)
The U25 and U45 don't have an ATX (or E-ATX) board and the PSU is also something else. But the Blade 1500/2500 have some ATX components.
These new-old stock videos are funny, at least this machine was an obscenely expensive niche item when it was new.
Original sound restored, which I guess is what you were hinting at ;)
ohh I love that, the good and old days of Sun Solaris!
No,it's not,mass Java CDE blockade,why Solaris...
Darn if I had known 7 was supported I wouldn't have installed 8!
Thank you! I want to source a couple of Sun Ultra 5 Work station ( Brand New Old stock) as stand by.
omg, the 90's hard drive chugging noise. It's been so long since I heard it.
Hi Andras
I haven't had any issues with Lcds. The one connected to the Ultra 5 is an AG Neovo F-419. I use this with other vintage systems like the vaxstation 4000/90 which requires sync on green. The graphics card I now have installed will drive a 1920x1080 panel!
Well, that's an AG Neovo monitor for you.
HOLY GOD THE HARD DRIVE CLICKING
depressing. that time i was dreamjng about this computer. now i have a computer with 12500 cores in my room. i am depressed that 10 years from now, this beast will be as fast as cell phones of that time. damn. your enemy is TIME.
Nice vid, I've got two Ultra 5s in my collection. Dependable little workstations and while the I/O performance of the onboard IDE is not great its alot easier and cheaper to find hard drive replacements versus older SCSI drives. Solaris 9 runs great on these machines. Solaris 10 will run but is a bit too slow IMHO.
aaaw i liked the harddrive sound >_< :P
I found a Sun Ultra 5 in the dumpster at a local college last year, but it looks like it went through a fire, since it's full of soot and looks like water got in it. :c
Hello, I have a sum version oppenBot 4.17.1 presents me with the same error, to be able to do that configuration that you present in your video I must necessarily change the NVRAM before doing that procedure? please help
how did you get it so quiet? mines are so loud, it's really a nag and I just don't manage to get them quiter. didn't change fans yet, admittedly.
I have a VOYAGER, but no Clue where to get the System-Disks from. Why is the ETH-ID so weird?
Super ! Need to stick a newer faster quieter HD in there, the machine will wake up and feel a lot snappier....
And it's better to get a SCSI one (unfortunately, U5/10 have somewhat buggy IDE controller).
Greetings Mark ! Any chance you are holidaying in India ?!
Hmm, I don't remember the Ultra. 1 being as noisy as this, seem. Really miss the e250 and e450 systems I used to look after Sparc 5s were underpowered compared to the Sparc 10 and 20s I also used to set the boot options use setenv and printenv to show If you accidentally press the abort l1/stop A type go at the open boot ok prompt to resume
Still have my SPARCstation IPX with Solaris 7 but the color monitor died. I can log into cli on the RS232 port but no windows. 🥺
How is your Ultra 5 working with LCD Monitors? I got one ultra 5 and it doesn't like them, it only works with CRTs. The problem lies in, that it takes too long for the machine to detect the monitor, and the monitor will go to sleep (tried with various monitors) and the ultra 5 will fall back to serial console.
Haha,use a SunRay
Its a shame you didn't image the hard drive in the pre-shipped state.
I love the way these old SUN computers look when they boot. black on white and that font. Does anyone know what the font is called?
Sun Gallant Demi. Linux has an equivalent font here /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/sun12x22.psfu.gz. The Sun source code has it here: github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/uts/common/io/12x22.c
Got a Mouse Systems optical mouse with it?
No, its a standard ball mouse...
Hi! I have problem with Ultra sunsparc
How to run CAD Excellon Cad files designed for Ultra Spark station running with object oriented programing on Windows PC?
It is possible to buy and maintain Ultrasparc station 5 now ? How to get solaris 8 ?
Write some,write c UNIX?
Thank You! I am dumb at that. I am thinking of buying Ultrasparc station 5 with Solaris 7 and copy old disc and run excellon software.
@ Unix-ness is defined by compliance of standard and behaviour of OS, not just genetics. Linux is Unix, too. Some distributions have even certificate enabling them to use UNIX trademark (afaik RHEL and Huawei's Euler OS have it)
I've got the Solaris 7 source code if you want it, Mark.
At one time I had access to the Solaris 10 source under NDA. All the .C files had AT&T Copyrights in them. The only interesting thing I did was compile the SVR4 banner utility under Linux using GCC just to see what would happen and it actually worked. (Compiled and ran)
@@stonent could you send me the .c and .h files . I'd like to try compiling SVR4 on the vintage system i'm building
@@bmfw2851 I no longer have them. It was a long time ago.