[SunHELP] Solaris installation through serial port doesnot respond

[Chris Pinnock]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 08:54:09PM -0700, wade chy wrote:
> Hi All
> I am trying to install Solaris 8 on an old Ultra
> Enterprise 2 without a sun monitor. There is two 25
> pin serial connectors A & B. I have hooked up a serial
> cable to A and the other end to my PCs 9 pin serial
> port. When I powered the sun box. It does not give any
> prompt to my PCs hyperterm. I tried to use an terminal
> program named Teraterm. But nothing seems to work. Is
> there any way to find out if the serial port on the
> sun box is working or not? Please help.
> Thank you in advance.

Is there a keyboard attached to the Sun? If so, remove it before
powering the Sun on.

best wishes, 
Chris