Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
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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> > >
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