Hi there, Firstly, thanks to everyone that helped last week with my newbie-ness to SPARC and Sun machines - I got a null modem cable and have happily and with no problems installed Debian Sarge on my Ultra 5, plus upgraded to unstable with the 2.6 kernel, plus submitted an installation report. >From the Debian SPARC ports page (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#who) it says to chime in to see if there's any help needed with the SPARC port so, here I am, chiming in. Not sure how or what I can do to help, but I'm certainly eager to learn :) Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent this ages ago, and a reply I sent to the list has appeared but not my original message, so I'm sending again. Many thanks Kevin Fullerton
-----Original Message----- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 June 2006 14:31 To: Kevin Fullerton Cc: [email protected] Subject: Installing Debian on an Ultra 5 On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:55:56PM +0100, Kevin Fullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 114 lines which said: > The serial port marked A on the Ultra 5 is a DB25 Female, and the > serial port marked B is a DB9 Male. I never used the Ultra 5 but it looks close from the Ultra 10. > 1) Do I have to connect to serial A or B on the Ultra 5, or doesn't it > matter It depends on the setup of the Sun. A is the default, but may be the previous owner changed to B. There is no automatic fallback from A to B. If you want to use B and have no screen but a keyboard, you can type: STOP-A (to go to the console) setenv output-device ttyb setenv input-device ttyb reset See http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_23 > 2) Will a standard DB9->DB25 serial null modem cable work for > connecting to A, or a standard DB9->DB9 for connecting to B Yes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
