[Gllug] Sun SparcStations

[Ian Norton]

seriously, where the hell do you easily find a cable for the strange sun 
combo-serial ports?

Ian

Tethys wrote:

>Dylan writes:
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>>>But as Chris says, just use a serial console. Virtually all of my Sparc
>>>boxen are headless, accessed via the network and/or serial console.
>>>      
>>>
>>That's what I was thinking for day-to-day, but for the initial install? Is 
>>that possible? How would I go about that?
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>>
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>Absolutely. Connect via the serial console, and at the PROM prompt, just
>"boot cdrom" or "boot net", depending on which install method you want
>to use. To return to the PROM at any point, just send a break (the same
>as pressing L1-A/Stop-A on a Sun keyboard).
>
>Tet
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