[Sunhelp] Netra setup.

[Jay Tribick]

Hi,

>I'm incharge of a Netra that my school owns.  They are those rack
>mountable headless, keyboard and mouseless Ultras.  I've never installed
>a headless box before.  I'm guessing I put a terminal (or something with
>terminal software) on the serial port, toss the Solaris install disk in
>the cd-rom and start it up.  Will this send all of the 'normal' output
>to the terminal, and let me run the install program?  I have experence
>installing solaris on my SparcStation 5 (typical setup, with a
>framebuffer), and various other suns with heads.

If the Sun doesn't detect a local keyboard and mouse, it'll
automatically route all console input/output via the serial
port - so just plug your terminal sw in, set it to 9600/8/n/1
and boot up with the Solaris CD.

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Regards,

Jay Tribick
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