19 Aug
2011
19 Aug
'11
3:13 p.m.
Some time ago I was given a Sun Ultra 5. My intention is not to keep it, but
I would like to see if I can get it to work first before finding a new owner
for it.
It did not come with a keyboard, so I have been trying to get something out
of the serial port, I believe that when there is no keyboard attached it
uses the serial port.
From my records it looks like at some point when I
first got it I did manage
to get to see something using 38400 baud, but now I
don't get anything at
all. This could be just that I have not got the right cable between the
machine and my terminal emulator.
Should I expect to be able to boot the machine from the serial port, log in
etc?
Thanks
Rob