I recently got OpenBSD setup on my Ultra 5 with a remote X session
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Europa64 · 2022-10-31 16:17

Thought y’all might like to see this - a few day ago I installed
OpenBSD on my Sun Ultra 5 and have been configuring it. Right now I
have no keyboard or mouse for it, so I have it set up so I can use a
serial terminal to log in and start a remote X session on my PC with
Xming.

I still need to finish configuring FVWM to my liking, and see if I can
figure out what’s up with the CD drive (likes to time out on access
and lock up the system, which doesn’t happen in Solaris or OpenBoot).

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thenovum · 2022-10-31 18:56

Thank you for sharing.

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Europa64 · 2022-10-31 19:05

You’re welcome! :)

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looneybooms · 2022-11-01 11:31

noice.  since your x is elsewhere, I would make the console just print
a constant tcpdump or something, lol

random aside.. i was once asked to recover data from a solaris install
(probably what used to be on that, no?) that had no ethernet, no tcp
stack, no license to install components.  nothing but serial.

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Europa64 · 2022-11-01 12:18

That sounds like a fun idea xD

Yeah, it came to me with Solaris 9 on it. How’d you manage to recover
the files?