Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:12:59 -0800 From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino@speakeasy.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Terminal question for U5 Message-ID: <4229781B.1040609@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20050305000429.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <4229608E.3040903@speakeasy.net> <20050305000429.A4084@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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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
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