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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netkit-bootparamd/+bug/1610184 Bootparamd is just broken for years... use anything that is not based on debian and it works :D I just set up a solaris 10u8 x86 VM and it works flawlessly right from the get go... I feel so stupid dicking around with this...

the fun part is, that if I run rpcinfo -p BOOT-SERVER-IP-Address I get all the services correctly listed. I can also mount the nfs shares on that machine. So I have to assume that it is working fine. It is also a fresh debian 12.5 server install just for this purpose. I have checked if it came...

Well its been a while :D In the meantime I updated to the latest firmware but it didn't help at all... After a bit of investigating I found out that there was a lot of rpc traffic happening from the V120 to my debian boot server... but only in this one direction. It seems to ask 255.255.255.255...

OK! I think now I got it. There is a newer firmware version apparently for my PROM... The readme of the patch even begins the list of fixed bugs with one of my problems: Update.to.flapjack2.4.0.17@OS copyright Problem Description: 4896390 DHCP problem during jumpstart install (from...

Above is my tcpdump on the bootserver and below is the output I'm getting on the console on my now V120... It is slightly confusing... In the beginning of my tcpdump I caught what appears to be a tftp file transfer (that corresponds to the point in time the console counts up to 3a000) after...

Well actually I made a bit of progress yesterday. I changed the listening address from tftpd-hpa from ":69" to "0.0.0.0:69" and with that it startet responding properly to the broadcast tftp requests by the v120. After that I could see in my pcap that it started asking for 255.255.255.255:111...

Yes I didn't expect that. Even openboot thinks now it is a Sun Fire V120 :D Well I'm trying to install Solaris 10 using netboot from a Solaris 10 x86 VM on it, but so far with not much success. Going the DHCP way overwhelmed me a bit with all those DHCP option definitions, because I have no...

Ok quick update, I just got the PSU that is meant for a Sun Fire V120 I changed the jumper on the Netra 120 Motherboard JP8 as mentioned in the manual to the Sun Fire Position, swapped the DC PSU to the AC PSU and it works absolutely flawless. At first I was a bit scared since connector 2 of...

Hi Mr Improvement :D unfortunately I have only ordered a Netra 120 and a PSU that is meant for a Sun Fire V120. The Netra I got for 40€ while a Sun Fire would cost me easily 5 times as much... So I can't compare the two. But to be honest, I'd expect both to be exactly the same. The manual for...

I also found out while reading the manual for the Sun Fire V120 and Sun Netra 120, that apparently there is a jumper JP8 on the mainboard. It says that one jumper position is meant for the mainboard being used in a Sun Fire V120 and the other position is used for Netra 120. Does anyone know if I...

Hi there :) I was wondering if anyone on the forum knows if the power supply of the Sun Fire V120 and the Sun Netra 120 are interchangeable. The manual mentions that both systems are exactly the same with the only difference being the Fire V120 is an AC PSU and the Netra using a DC PSU...

oh thanks for clarifying I already started to wonder what that's got to do with amazon web services ;) :D

Well that makes a lot of sense. I have almost no experience using tape media, except setting up Veeam to archive Backups to modern LTO Tape Libraries (and tape management with veeam is a pain -.-) The only experience with tape in my hobby has been Colorado QIC Tape with DOS and Windows for...

Oh ok, what is your operating system of choice for such tasks?

Hi, so apparently a guy called Keven on the MPE Forever discord pointed me to a tool called tapecopy In ubuntu it is part of the hercules package (whoever thought of that name...) Anyways it works perfectly now It creates an image file and while doing so it tells me the files, the amount of...

Ok, so now I downloaded and compiled this application: https://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils and i used the taperead application from this toolset on some tapes I only get 28500 bytes (MPEiX6.0 Prod/Subsys) before the application returns end of tape marker, and on some tapes like for instance...

Hi chuck, yes I did. Well the controller is an adaptec 2940 HBA, 50-Pin cable directly attached to an HP C1537 DDS3 drive. Well unfortunately I don't have a terminator that I can mix and match with adapters to work in that scenario.I assumed the termination power jumper on the drive set to...

Hello people! So finally the DDS3 tape drive arrived, I cleaned it mechanically and with a cleaning tape. Then I tested writing and reading back from a known good tape that someone sold me as working ok. That seemed to work. Then I inserted a MPE/iX Factory Preload tape and tried to pull an...

Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. Yes this is really annoying. I don't see any technical reason for missing backward compatibility, except the different magnetic pigment used after LTO-6... But they also had a solution for that with audio cassettes, so I don't know why this suddenly is a problem for...

Sorry for the double post but I seem to be unable to edit my previous message. I was actually able to install HP-UX 11iv2 on it! I found a SCSI SCA HDD that I could plug into the system because apparently HP-UX doesn't like the SCSI adapter that is used in my HP3000 A500 to interface the HP...