[SunHELP] Solaris installation through serial port doesnot respond

[Adam Mazza]

You can't use a plain modem(serial) cable. You need to get a null modem
connector. They sell these at radio shack.

Adam Mazza

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, 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.
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