[Gllug] Sun SparcStations

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Fri Jan 10 14:25:52 UTC 2003


Dylan writes:

>> 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?

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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