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Sun Sparc20
Name: maxpayne Date: October 14, 2003 at 16:07:26 Pacific OS: clueless CPU/Ram: clueless
Comment:
Just bought Sun Sparc20 but without monitor, keyboard + mouse from stranger. I tried to connect using hyper terminal but failed. Have no idea of the OS, login id, passwd & ip address. Pls advice. Thank you
Name: westwood01 Date: October 17, 2003 at 15:39:40 Pacific
Reply:
ummm...
buy monitor. buy mouse. obtain/reinstall Solaris OS.
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Response Number 2
Name: David Perry Date: October 23, 2003 at 08:20:34 Pacific
Reply:
It is not only possible but entirely reasonable to operate a sun computer with the console directred through the serial port. Use a null modem if you want to connect to a pc using hyperterm. To reinstall the OS, attach a SCSI CDrom drive as ID 6 then when you boot, send a break signal. With a sun keyboard it would be [STOP]A, with a terminal, try [CONTROL]L. You should get an OK> prompt. Type
boot cdrom
It will boot from the install disk in your cdrom drive.
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