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   PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 22:31:17 JST PulkoMandy

   Good news: my "new" logic analyzer was d livered today, it was not damaged by postal services (despite the postman letting the package fall on the ground in front of me) and it powers up fine.

   Bad news: either the floppy drive or the (orginal) system disk is not working. Spent a couple hours trying to find a working floppy drive and old PC in my parts stash to write a new system floppy. I think my computer from 2003 has a bad floppy controller, couldn't get that to work...

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 22:31:13 JST PulkoMandy

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     Replaced the drive. My Solaris 8 install CD (which is a very old CDR) is unhappy. But I could boot a Solaris 2.5.1 one! That allows me to mount the ide hard disk and remove the root password. And I'm in!

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 22:31:15 JST PulkoMandy

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     Found the install CDs. But I can't open the cdrom drive in this machine, is it dead?

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 22:31:16 JST PulkoMandy

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     I then tried an older PC but it is an AT machine and has the big DIN keyboard connector. I don't have the matching keyboard anymore and can't find my PS/2 adapter.

     The only other machine I have with a floppy drive is a Sun Ultra5 and I think I only used it to port Haiku bootloader and have no idea what's on its hard disk. And of course can't find my Solaris install CDs...

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     mmu_man (mmu_man@m.g3l.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:22 JST mmu_man

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     @pulkomandy https://github.com/sba1/simplegit ?

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:23 JST PulkoMandy

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     Now that I have the Solaris machine booted up I wondered if I could port some of my software to it just for fun. But there's no git. I tried to get pkgsrc, but appartently the tar version on Solaris 8 can't extract their latest archive correctly (and cvs isn't installed so that's also not an option). What are my options here?

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:24 JST PulkoMandy

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     There are also rumors of a year-2000 compatible utility disk (to set the date past 1999) but I couldn't find it. The system software handles dates after 2000, but only if you set it to december 1999 and wait for time to pass. And after that, the utility to set the date is confused about the date format.

     I guess if the updated disk is not found anywhere, I could try patching the utility software?

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:26 JST PulkoMandy

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     The VGA output has some... interesting color palette choices. There is an option to use a serial mouse, but I can't find my 25 to 9 pin serial port adapter at the moment.

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:27 JST PulkoMandy

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     Let's gooo!

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:28 JST PulkoMandy

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     Ok, I have at least one "good" one. Now let's figure out how to transfer files to the Solaris machine over the network and wether I can write disk images to floppies with it (if not, should still be fine to copy the files to a dos formatted floppy).
     Also, do I still have floppy label stickers somewhere? 🤔

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:29 JST PulkoMandy

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     Apparently after that you need to run "volrmmount floppy" so the system notices that's there is a floppy in the drive, and then you can format it. That is, if my new old stock floppies don't all give crc errors at some point. The first two out of 50 failed to format...

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     PulkoMandy (pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:56:30 JST PulkoMandy

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     This machine doesn't have /dev/diskette present. I'm not sure how to make it appear. Some internet search suggests using "devfsadm -v" but that is hitting some timeouts with ide disks. Eventually it worked and created the device file! Now let's see if I can format a floppy...