RE: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-18 Thread Martin
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:20 +0100, Richard Mortimer wrote: > Ok, so you say that it asks for a password after doing stop-A. That's > probably typical of University machines because it makes it harder for > students/staff bypassing privileges. > > As someone else said the easiest is probably to za

Re: AW: Deb on Sparc Station 5 / monitor interface

2005-08-15 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 15 Aug 2005 18:23, Alex Yung wrote: > On 8/15/2005 11:37 AM, John Bowden wrote: > > On Monday 08 Aug 2005 10:42, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: > >>Dear listmembers, > >>I have *very* positive experience using the Raritan Adapter: 1395 > >> "Raritan Sun VGA-Konverter 13W3->D-Sub 15" with any PC-

Re: AW: Deb on Sparc Station 5 / monitor interface

2005-08-15 Thread Alex Yung
On 8/15/2005 11:37 AM, John Bowden wrote: > On Monday 08 Aug 2005 10:42, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: > >>Dear listmembers, >>I have *very* positive experience using the Raritan Adapter: 1395 "Raritan >>Sun VGA-Konverter 13W3->D-Sub 15" with any PC-standard monitor that does >>not understand sync on gr

Re: AW: Deb on Sparc Station 5 / monitor interface

2005-08-15 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 08 Aug 2005 10:42, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: > Dear listmembers, > I have *very* positive experience using the Raritan Adapter: 1395 "Raritan > Sun VGA-Konverter 13W3->D-Sub 15" with any PC-standard monitor that does > not understand sync on green. Take care > > > > Dieter Jurzitza I want t

RE: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-15 Thread Richard Mortimer
Ok, so you say that it asks for a password after doing stop-A. That's probably typical of University machines because it makes it harder for students/staff bypassing privileges. As someone else said the easiest is probably to zap the OBP settings by playing with the contents of the device outside

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-13 Thread Jon Biddell
> > When I go into the open boot it asks for a password. If you press STOP-A, do you get the OK prompt ? If you do, reset-all should take care of the password problem I believe (it did on my SunBlade) > > Do you think it might be better to rob the memory out of half the > > boxes and use in t

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-13 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 13 Aug 2005 21:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > SCSI is an internal one. I tried plugging it in but being new to this > > architecture I don't know how to tell it to look look for the CD ROM. > > I have 16 of these machines coming. Got 1 to play with at the moment b

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
John Bowden wrote: > SCSI is an internal one. I tried plugging it in but being new to this > architecture I don't know how to tell it to look look for the CD ROM. > I have 16 of these machines coming. Got 1 to play with at the moment but it > won't finish booting. Stops while it looks for an ip fr

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-08 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 08 Aug 2005 10:35, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > Hi John. > > > > On Saturday 06 August 2005 23:26, you wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 08:55, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > The ss5's don't come with a floppy or CD drive, but I do have a SCSI CD >

AW: Deb on Sparc Station 5 / monitor interface

2005-08-08 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
www.becker.de > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Mark Morgan Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 8. August 2005 11:36 > An: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5 > > * > As I understand it the monitors expect a composi

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > Hi John. > > On Saturday 06 August 2005 23:26, you wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 08:55, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > ... > > The ss5's don't come with a floppy or CD drive, but I do have a SCSI CD > > burner attached to one of my amd boxes. How do I get round the ope

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:42:35 +0200, Hartwig Atrops writes: >> The ss5's don't come with a floppy or CD drive, but I do have a SCSI CD >> burner attached to one of my amd boxes. How do I get round the openboot >> password to tell it to boot from the CD? > >External SCSI CD? You can attach it to the

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-07 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi John. On Saturday 06 August 2005 23:26, you wrote: > On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 08:55, Hartwig Atrops wrote: ... > > > I'll just say it so someone else doesn't have to, a SparcStation 5 and > > > an Ultra 5 are mch different animals. > > > > That's true. A Sparcstation 5 is a 32 bit machine

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-06 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi all. > > > Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge > > > run on them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65Mb of ram, > > > though I'm not sure until they arrive. I'm planning on learning about > > > clustering, and I am reasonably new to Linux (been running M

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:01:02PM -0400, Robert Wolfe, OpenSource Solutions wrote: > On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 02:31:36 +0100 > John Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge run on > > them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65M

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Wolfe, OpenSource Solutions
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 02:31:36 +0100 John Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge run on > them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65Mb of ram, though I'm not > sure until they arrive. I'm planning on learning about clustering,

Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-05 Thread John Bowden
Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge run on them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65Mb of ram, though I'm not sure until they arrive. I'm planning on learning about clustering, and I am reasonably new to Linux (been running Mandrake), so any help would be