I recently purchased a Sun SPARCstation LX system, this arrived as an 'untested' unit. I was happy to find that the unit did in fact power on and was making the right sounds, albeit I had no way of viewing the screen due to the unit having a 13W3, also the keyboard I got with the system had no cable. The only thing I could do at this point was to connect up a PC to it via the serial port and try to get a terminal, this showed me the system was operational, it enthused me to jump right in to the refurb. To save posting this all again, please try this link to see all of my related posts: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3AGammitin%20SPARCstation&src=typed_query&f=live I have been unable to install an OS to a BlueSCSI hdd image, but what I have been able to do is to install to a mechanical SCSI drive, backup a clone image and then boot it from BlueSCSI. I will be sharing various hdd iamges (check back here for updates) for you to use on your own system, here's the l