[SunRescue] bringing alive SS2

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:10:49PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> If your NCD has a serial port, like my 19c does, then you can boot it
> from the Linux box and then open a "new serial..." terminal window and
> talk to the sun console over a null-modem cable.  Actually you might
> need a 3-wire DTE-DTE cable with 6-8-20 and 4-5 tied together on each
> end, though a break-out box with a couple of jumpers will let you
> experiment to get it right.

Only problem is, unless you have a tftp server to bootload your
stuff off of in the first place, the 19r is another paperweight.

I've got one if anybody in the Austin area wants one for free.

I've also got the software for it somewhere.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX