try google 'RISC linux boot disk serial console' or something.. You
can't be the first one to try this...

-joel

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 17:48 -0800, Roger Rustad wrote:
> The serial port is kind of weird. It's a parallel port type thing on the 
> back, and in it, there's this other plug thing that converts the plug 
> into three RS-232 serial ports.  One says "console", and the other two 
> say "UPS" and "remote".
> 
> What type of boot disk would support console?  I'm assuming that console 
> would just mean some sort of rollover cable (similar to Cisco)?
> 
> Joel Brauer wrote:
> > If it has a serial port you could get yourself a boot disk that supports
> > a serial console and then use a null modem to view the console...
> > 
> > -joel
> > 
> > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:39 -0800, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote:
> >> Someone is giving me a RISC server, but before I can take it, I have
> >> to securely wipe it.
> >>
> >> This HP box (http://tinyurl.com/y5a9y6) is currently running SCO unix.
> >>  I want to wipe it with Boot and Nuke, but I don't have a video output
> >> or PS/2 slots.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how I might do this? It's all taken apart, so it's not
> >> like I can console into it very easily unless I figure out a way to
> >> hook up a keyboard, video card, and monitor.
> >>
> >> Roger
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