From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 09:13:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3CC16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C256F43D3F for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:13:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil.stracchino@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 13256 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2005 09:13:03 -0000 Received: from dsl081-053-242.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.1.100]) (caerllewys@[64.81.53.242]) (envelope-sender ) by mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Mar 2005 09:13:02 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.308 [266.6.2]); Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:13:01 -0800 Message-ID: <4229781B.1040609@speakeasy.net> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:12:59 -0800 From: Phil Stracchino User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <4229608E.3040903@speakeasy.net> <20050305000429.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050305000429.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.1 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Terminal question for U5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:13:04 -0000 Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > >>I hope this is a quickie question: What can I do to get a usable >>terminal for sysinstall on a Sun Ultra5, using the default built-in >>framebuffer attached to a Sun 365-1343 17" color monitor? I have a >>perfectly good FreeBSD 5.3 sparc64 CD here which I can't install from >>because I can't see what I'm doing in sysinstall, because all the >>available terminal types appear to assume my screen is 80x25. > > > Use a serial console. Plug in a null-modem cable into the serial port, > connect the other end to a system of choice, and unplug the sun keyboard > from the U5. Fire up a terminal emulator on the other system. Boot the U5 > from CD and follow the prompts. If you have another FreeBSD or Linux > machine you can typically get the color menus to work :) Thanks. I suspected something like that might be the case. Unfortunately, I don't have a working serial-console cable here with me. > Note that you can't run X on the builtin display anyway so unless you > particularly like the slow OBP console you'll want to use some other > method of communication. Well, I was figuring the box would run headless. It's tasked to be a nameserver and not much else at present. But by the sound of things, unless I can come up with a working serial console cable, I may have to rethink what to put on it. -- Phil Stracchino Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker phil.stracchino@speakeasy.net phil.stracchino@ceva-dsp.com Mobile: 408-592-8081