[SunRescue] SunOS 4.*

[Cameron Berkenpas]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:16:43PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>   Why not just string a serial cable to ttya and log in via serial
> console?

Sounds like a good idea, but I'm fairly inexperienced at sun hardware so I'm not entirely sure how to do that.

 
>     -Dave McGuire
> 
> On May 24, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:24:46PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > 
> > I did edit those two files so maybe something happened and it's not actually 
> > booting anymore. Guess I'll just have to break down and get an adapter after 
> > all.
> > 
> > Thanks. 
> > 
> > > On May 24, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
> > > > I have a sparc classic and no monitor that I would like to get it going. 
> > > > All I really need to do at this point is get it on the network, where I 
> > > > wouldn't need a monitor for it. I can read and write to the drive if I 
> > > > connect it to the scsi controller on a linux box with ufs support compiled in. 
> > > > 
> > > > The question is, how do I manually change the ip on SunOS 4.*? I don't remember the exact SunOS version but it's 4.1, 4.1.1, or 4.2. I've edited a few of the 
> > > > obvious files with no luck (like /etc/hostname.le0).
> > > > 
> > > > I'm pretty sure the thing still boots up. I booted it up about a month ago, 
> > > > stuck a network cord in it, and monitored the network and the sparc was sending out arp requests. Since I've edited those few files, I no longer get any of 
> > > > that I'm afraid.
> > > 
> > >   In SunOS4.x, the default rc scripts will look for /etc/hostname.le0,
> > > which should contain the machine's hostname.  That is then looked up
> > > in /etc/hosts to get the IP address for that interface (le0).
> > > 
> > >          -Dave McGuire
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