Taking a look at a Sun Fire v440 enterprise server from 2003. We'll get familiar with the hardware, get it racked up in the retro rack, and finally install Solaris on it over a JumpStart server hosted in my proxmox instance.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:05 v440 Physical Overview
00:17:17 First Power On
00:18:47 ALOM and ok Prompt Explanation
00:22:27 Booting to Solaris
00:25:25 Modifying a Rail Kit and Racking the v440
00:37:06 Resetting the ALOM Password
00:40:00 Installing Hard Drives
00:45:47 JumpStart Server Overview
00:52:45 Testing the Hard Drives
01:01:57 JumpStarting Solaris 9
01:07:30 JumpStarting Solaris 10
01:17:04 Next Steps