Fun with Sun Ultra 20
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I'm trying to install  a current OS on my half-repaired  Ultra 20. As I
wrote yesterday  I have replaced  the original mainboard with  the Tyan
Tomcat K8E (the Sun mainboard is a version of this thing).

Thee was an old nVidia card in the PCIe slot. It was dead so I have had
to use  the integrated  framebuffer for  display output  (it's VGA-only
which makes  some problems with my  screen but it should  be fixable by
the proper xorg.conf). I tried to install my spare (modern) Radeon card
but simple solutions do not work here...

The installation process  have became fun. I have two  320GB hard disks
here. One includes Ubuntu 12.04 and  the second has the 10.04. There is
a CD-RW drive but  it seems to be dead (I cannot open  its door and the
OS shows  strange messages related to  it). It should be  just a little
problem BUT THIS THING CANNOT BOOT FROM THE USB STICK! It can boot from
a floppy (if there would be one, of course) or from USB Zip drive.

Well, it  is still possible  to update 12.04 to  14.04. So I  have been
going this way...