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

[Erick Stohr <visuale1@earthlink.net>]

I have kermit, about all i know how to do with that is set the speed to
9600 and
connect, but i get nothing. What does the 8, n, and 1 stand for? And
thanks for
the help too.

Erick

Jon Schewe 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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