Servers The Alaska Server June 10, 2026 / June 10, 2026 by mark | Leave a Comment We recently pulled out this old 2U rackmount server. I set it up 10+ years ago as a personal file server, and recently realized the server wasn’t powering on. We determined the power supply had failed and then tried to figure out where this machine came from. With some help from our supporters, here’s what […] Read more » alaska dinastia mexmal
FreeBSD Installing FreeBSD 2.0.5 in a VM October 2, 2023 / August 5, 2025 by mark | Leave a Comment How to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 in a virtual machine Read more » freebsd virtualbox
Sun ZuluSCSI CD-ROM for Sun Sparcstation August 22, 2023 / August 22, 2023 by mark | Leave a Comment After we completed the hardware restoration on the Sun SparcCLASSIC, my first objective was to do a network-based Solaris install. I had heard many people talk about network installs of Solaris, in particular _Jumpstart_ which is an automated install method over the network. Eventually, we got the network install of Solaris 2.6 working and showed […] Read more » sparcclassic sparcstation zuluscsi