[SunRescue] Silly SS10... continued....

[Peter L. Wargo]

Bob-

If you pull kbd/mouse, it will come up using ttya as console.

-Pete


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Peter L. Wargo
pwargo at basenji.com
Owner/operator of basenji.com.

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> Well, the SS10 machine seems to be somewhat less that optimal, but
> hey, we dumpster divers can't be too choosey.  First, the floppy
> ist kaput, but I have the floppy out of the SS4 haywired into it
> (the mount screws from the SS10 floppy are metric, while the mount
> screws from the SS4 floppy are US, so the mount hardware won't mate).
> Next, my sun 411 cdrom died.  But, on a lark, I tried a forlorn old
> Apple cdrom I have been hanging onto for sparc OpenBSD/NetBSD installs,
> which normally won't work for Solaris/SunOS installs, and Yeah! it works
> on Solaris 8... neat.  Anyway, the video seems kaput, too.  The monitor
> is either going bellyup or the GX maybe, not sure yet.  The monitor blanks
> green, then magenta, then sometimes normal full color.  It is now doing
> a Solaris 8 install, and I don't want to stop it, in midstream.  But,
> I probably want to yank the monitor and GX and run the SS10 off a tty,
> since its main use will be as a small server, with the SS5 as the
> workstation.
> 
> Once Solaris 8 is installed, off the usual monitor/keyboard, how does
> one correctly get it to come up off just a tty (e.g., my VAX VT320)?
> Will it come up correctly by just pulling the video/keyboard/mouse,
> or does it require some configgy pudding twiddling, or does it require
> a full reinstall off a tty?
> 
> Any insights, etc., are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
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