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"Eric J. Bowser" <president@promatch.net> writes:

>I recently picked up a SparcStation LX on ebay.  It has RedHat installed on
>it as well as 16 meg of ram and I think a 50 mhz processor.

>I have never used a Sun before and have several questions.  What are the
>ports labeled "TP <...>", "ISDN - TE" two(?) of them,

Ok, the TP port is the twisted-pair ethernet port. The other RJ-45 sockets
are for the on-board ISDN hardware (there's info about the LX at
docs.sun.com - in fact the full service manual for the LX and the LC is
online at docs.sun.com).

> and the round plugs
>with the up and down arrows? 

The round 8-pin socket is the keyboard connector, and the 3.5 mm sockets
are audio connections for line in, line out, etc.

> How do I eject the floppy drive, as there is
>no button visible to me?

It's done via software, just like on Apple Mac's, but there's a tiny
emergency eject hole which you can slip a straightened paper clip into if
need be.

>  How can I boot from floppy, it always goes from
>hard disk, even if there is a floppy inserted?

You can boot from a floppy, but there's no support for it in Sun's
documentation. You either need a hard drive with Solaris installed, or a
Solaris CD-ROM (and therefore an external SCSI CD-ROM drive).

Regards,

Craig.
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