Hi Adrian,
Last year I tried to netboot a V120 and V210  and failed spectacularly on both  
with CPU lockups and network timeouts.
Net booting Solaris still worked  fine without an error however. 

I managed to find a scrap V240 with  tonne of corrosion and moved the DVD drive 
from that system to the V210.

Booting from the iso in the DVD allowed me to install without an issue. 

root@daffy:/etc/apt# uname -a
Linux daffy 5.16.0-5-sparc64 #1 Debian 5.16.14-1 (2022-03-15) sparc64 GNU/Linux

However, I was unable to find a mirror to download any packages from. I'm only 
after basic stuff like tcsh, alpine, openssh-server, etc.

What are my next steps now to make this system useful?

Thanks Adrian for keeping Debian alive on Sparc.

Now to add a second CPU to this box and up the RAM a bit.

Regards
Brian

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