Re: [TCLUG:14315] sun box - kind of off the subject

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

At 09:20 AM 3/4/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Erick Stohr <visuale1@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> am thinking of getting a solaris box for fun at home(i have a sparc 1+,
>> but don't know what to do with it becuase it has no floppy or cdrom and
>> i don't know how to reach it on my intranet because i don't know it's
>> name nor ip, any ideas are also apprceciated).  What models of solaris
>
>There are a couple of things you can do.
>
>- Get a SCSI CD-ROM drive and hook it up to the back and boot off that, needs
>to be ID6 and 512 block size, it's usually a jumper on the back.  If you have
>that nasty old 50 connector that looks like a huge serial port, I have a cable
>you can borrow that converts it to standard SCSI.  They're pretty tough to
>find.
>
>- Boot it off the network.  Setup another machine to act as a rarp and bootp
>server.  Then turn on the sparc and get to the EPROM prompt, L1-A if you're
>using a sun keyboard, if you're using a dumb terminal sending a break should
>do it.  Then do 'boot le0' and it should work or you get a message that tells
>you what boot options are available.
>
>BTW if you don't have a monitor and keyboard for it, just plug a serial cable
>into serial port A, if there are two, and run that into a machine with a term
>program pointed at the serial port and set the terminal to 9600,8,N,1 and you
>should get output.  If you get funny stuff, try 9600,7,E,0.
>
>As you might have guessed I've done some work with these.  I've got an old
>Sun3/50 that I've installed SunOS and NetBSD on, using tape, cdrom and network
>installs.  Tape is really fun :)
>
>
>-- 
>Jon Schewe 
>http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
>schewe@tcfreenet.org
>
>
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