> This is soooo far OT that I'll probably get stoned to death, but I have no
> idea where else to go. And you folks are just so smart and friendly ;-)
Lucky for you I'm a Solbourne fan, which is somewhat the same thing. :-)
> My story: I picked up a Sun SPARCstation LX at work for free - rescued from
> the dumpster. It came with all the goodies - 411 ext hard drive, keyboard,
> mouse, mousepad, 19" display, AUI transceiver... no CD, though, but i can
> hook up an external scsi cd-r i have to work as the cd-rom. Anyway, when it
> boots (SunOS 4.something or other) it expects to find a certain server on
> the network. It doesn't appear to be net booting, but i have so little
> experience with these machines (and no one at work does either - that's why
> they were headed to the trash) that i don't know how to get around this.
> Each time it boots it looks for the server, can't find it, and keeps trying
> to find it on the network. It won't even get to the prompt. nada. just
> looks for the server.
If you want to mail me privately, that's fine. What messages does it display?
One thing to try is this. I'm sure it's set to autoboot. Once it finishes
its POST check, it should then try to boot. Let it do POST, but once it
goes into the boot process, hit CTRL-C immediately! (Or if that fails, try
STOP-A.) You should get a ROM> prompt. Type "boot -s" and see what it does.
--
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Quote me as saying I was misquoted. -- Groucho Marx ------------------------
--
PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |
- Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Save on Mac software -- Shop Software Outlet.com
<http://lowendmac.com/ad/software.outlet.html>
Star Wars Complete Collection on Video CD - $32.97
Back to the Future Collection on Video CD - $15.97
EurekaMovies.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/eureka.html>
- - - - -
PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml>
Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks!
<http://www.applelinks.com>
