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First non-scsi machine, Named Darwin. It has a 440MHZ UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) 64-bits processor, 768 MB Ram, 1x 40 GB Maxtor disk, a DVD&CD-R/RW drive and a Belkin USB2 PCI card.

It booted and installed Debian Sarge (anyone see a pattern here?) by means of netbooting from a tftp-server that runs on Debbie, my Macintosh SE/30.
Its ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) enables it to run in 24-bits mode on my 14” Flatscreen monitor. This is currently my only Sparc that runs a windowmanager(KDE), and I use it for DVD-burning and playing around.
The prom was recently upgraded to the latest 3.31 version by means of netbooting the upgrade installer, again booting from the SE/30.

pvz@darwin:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre)
fpu : UltraSparc IIi integrated FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 31
prom : 3.31.0
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
Cpu0Bogo : 661.50
Cpu0ClkTck : 0000000013d92d40
MMU Type : Spitfire

uname -a Linux darwin 2.6.12-1-sparc64 #1 Thu Jul 7 21:14:55 EDT 2005 sparc64 GNU/Linux

Kernel downloaded from http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels/2.6/
See http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?PortsSparc for more information.

Add sunhme to /etc/modules or install discover1 to get the network up during boot with a 2.6.x kernel.