Greetings, all,
Just FYI, this works just fine on the E4500s as well. There are two
serial ports, so you have to be sure to get port A, but other than
that, works great.
Full agreement with Bruce, doing the install via the serial port is
actually not possible (MUST use a second virtual terminal to 'modprobe
esp.o'), so I used the keyboard/mouse/monitor for the install, but they
are not used under normal conditions.
Wenton L. Davis
Bruce O'Neel wrote:
Yes, that's completely true and that's how I run all of mine.
OTOH, it's a bit hard to do the install but I guess the orig
poster can just put the keyboard and display on for the install
and then remove them.
It's handy to have a null modem cable sitting around if something
goes wrong though. It solves the "I turned it on 10 mins ago
and it still doesn't respond to ping" problem...
cheers
bruce
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:58:08PM +0200, Daniel Liikamaa wrote:
You can boot the machine without keyboard/mouse even if you don't
connect a null modem cable to the serial port. You just won't have a
hardware console, that's all. This has worked with my Ultra10 and my
SB100, which I have run as firewalls in my closet. :)
Daniel
On tis, 2006-08-22 at 18:44 +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
Yes, no problem.
Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one
labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should
work.
This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search
on that will get you loads of info.
cheers
bruce
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote:
Hello world,
i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and
sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to
start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the
command into the BIOS....but with Solaris OpenBoot???
Thanks a lot..
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