[SunRescue] IPX questions, suggestions

[scohen - Stephen Cohen]

Oops - I failed to mention that my IPX is running Red Hat Linux.  I'm led to
believe that headless installs are a pain, but I've not heard much on
headless boots.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sheldon T. Hall [mailto:shall1 at columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 6:56 PM
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] IPX questions, suggestions


On Tuesday, July 18, 2000 9:33 AM, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> My IPX ... came with a 20" monitor.  However, graphics on this box are dog
> slow.  It is much faster (but still slow) to X the output over to, say,
> an NT box running Exceed.

That's true of my LX, too, even with 128 megs of RAM.

> I plan on using the monitor on my PC and rebuilding the boot process such
> that the IPX will come up, headless, on its own.

Piece o'cake!  I just slapped all the non-Solaris-standard startup scripts
in /etc/rc3.d/S99local and unpluged the keyboard.

-Shel

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