Summary: I got a Sparc 5 station in a computer give away, my only problem is: I don't have a login and password to access it. I have tried to install Solaris 8...
Summary: Hello, Does anybody know if the Sparc 5 workstation accepts > 2GB SCSI harddisks ? This SUN support manual suggested it didn't, but some other places...
Summary: I have a sparc 5 where the keyboard works but the mouse doesnot. Can I use a normal keyboard with sparc 5? What do I do with the mouse if I use a reg...
Summary: I just bouhgt a Sparc 5 to hack around with at home. The machne runs great. I'm trying to get the sound to work with my speakers(Best Buy cheapies). I...
Summary: I recently acuired a Sparc 5 and a 17" Sun Monitor. It seems like this system is trying to boot from the network. After going through the boot sequenc...
Summary: hi all I want to replace my old 4GB HD on my ultra sparc 5 with 40GB Western digital HD is it possible to do it? so I can install solaris 8 or 9 and b...
Summary: Help! My old sparc 5 station died and I bought a new (used) one on Ebay. it is working fine but I do not have any user's password, nore root's passwor...
Summary: Hi all, Im a newbies in Solaris .. in fact i never use it b4. I have just acquired a sparc st.5 with solaris8 in it. Since the owner didn't have any m...
Summary: Hi there, I have configured my Intel box as a Wingate Server and now want to make my Sun SPARCstation 5 as a Wingate Client. After downloading Netscap...
Summary: I have a Sparc 5 and before i went with Solaris 8, i used Red Hat Linux. I noticed that I had to have at least 64 megs otherwise the installer would c...
Summary: I have a Sun Ultra 5 machine running Solaris 8 with a Sun Keyboard and mouse. The mouse is connected to the keyboard. Although the keyboard is functio...
Summary: I just bought a SUN SPARC 5 170Mhz 128MB 2x4GB CDTurbo GX and all the sun peripheral devices, except for the monitor. I have a high resolution, crysta...
Summary: Sparc 5's cannot boot a / slice greater than 2gig due to OBP. Earlier versions of OBP cannot boot a / slice greater than 1 gig. Use a 900 mb / slice j...
Summary: Thank you! I was unsure if a -r would do the trick, but sounds like it will work just fine. Im not all that worried about speed...I just need somethi...
Summary: Hello all, I recently purchased a sparc 5 with Solaris 2.XX preinstalled. I am currently trying to install Sol 8 on it. These are the steps I am takin...
Summary: Hi there, I am new to this Sun hardware world. I am hoping to pass my Sys Admin exams. I need to get suggestion of what spec of a machine do I need to...
Summary: If you pull the top off of a sparc 5 you will see a 50 pin ribbon cable to attach a scsi narrow device like a cdrom. Sun expects the cdrom to be id6. ...
Summary: how many devices do you have connected and how dit you connect this and what is you total scsi -cable length??? (not just cables, dut also devices, li...
Summary: I installed 2.8 on an old sparc 5. I chose the 'Core' option as the machine is pretty basic, thinking I could later install from CDROM any useful pack...
Summary: I have an old Sparc 5 170 that was sold to me with an OS, can't find user and login and I'm trying to do a fresh install of Solaris. When I do, I get ...
Summary: hay guys..i have a sparc 5 and sparc 10 connected threw a hub .the hub is hooked up to a cable modem using dhcp.now the sparc 5 pulls the ip address ...
Summary: Sparc 5, not many resoulutions. In the future, you can run prtconf -F and it will return the frame buffer your running on your solaris box. If all t...