19 Aug
2011
19 Aug
'11
9:04 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Fri, 8/19/11, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at
ntlworld.com> wrote:
This thread is timely - I have been offered an Ultra 5 to pick up this
weekend. I don't know anything about it except that it will come with
Solaris 8 media.
I'm already on the Suns-at-Home list, but I'm curious if anyone here
has any recommended upgrades (specific models of PCI SCSI or video
cards, in particular). I'm hoping it has the max 512MB of RAM, but if
not, I'll probably want to seek that upgrade out too.
If it all pans out, I'll probably retire my old SPARC5 that I've been
using on and off as a Solaris nest for 10 years.
-ethan
Should I expect to be able to boot the machine
from the
serial port, log in etc?
Yes. You should be able to see all the boot diagnostic messages, as well as the firmware
and the OS (if installed). Try 9600 8/n/1