On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Hillel Lubman<shtetldik at gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a used Sun Fire V240 server and want to try to test it with > OpenSolaris. But there is no video card there installed (I don't have > experience with servers, it's possible to access it through serial port > probably,
If you want to try out AI before having your XVR-100, get yourself a Null-Modem cable for 2$, attach it to your V240 and any other Solaris box, then on the other box edit the "hardwire" entry in /etc/remote to match the correct port, either a or b: $ grep -n hardwire /etc/remote 22:hardwire:\ Then issue "tip hardwire". And you are at the server's ok prompt. While there you should "setenv auto-boot? false", because you have no Stop+A key sequence, and the replacement sequence for use over serial lines does not always work. If your V240 is indeed headless, then it detects this during POST and redirects all I/O to ttyb or ttya. Otherwise consider issuing at the ok prompt (henn and egg problem, I know) "setenv input-device ttya" and setenv output-device ttya" (or of course ttyb, as you need). It is also posssible to mix up serial console and locally running X11, whether it is Xsun or now Xorg. Then you could even use non-Sun graphics cards from the x86 world. But all that costs you time and effort. It is only if you like to play a bit. What you probably want is simply the XVR-100 and local console. -- %martin
