https://exquisite.tube/videos/watch/534af6a1-1980-4e9e-b869-3951b8c2aeed Being an avid collector of Sun Microsystems servers, the speaker has a few Sun2 machines from around 1983. The 2/50 can only netboot but it doesn't use NFS as that had not been invented yet. But surely, a moden *BSD can act as a boot server and run a diskless client? And for the 2/120, that does have SCSI disks, it surely can be used to do a network installation of SunOS? Well, maybe. Depending on the which flavour of BSD you are using, how much perseverance you have and probably also how the stars are aligned. The speaker will discuss his efforts netbooting a 40+ year old Sun as well. If you have some antique hardware in your attic, this talk is for you! Or just come to listen to some obstacles that were encountered in the process (FreeBSD kernel panic anyone?). Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:07:21 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://exquisite.tube https://exquisite.tube/lazy-static/avatars/15cdbc2e-7773-4916-99e9-38207b20252d.png https://exquisite.tube/videos/watch/534af6a1-1980-4e9e-b869-3951b8c2aeed All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://exquisite.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.