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"Tim Warnock" <timoid@nospam.getonit.net.au> writes:

>i recently got an E250 server to play with, but wasnt aware that i needed a 
>special keyboard/mouse and screen.

Yes you need a Sun keyboard and mouse if you want to use a local console
device on the machine.

The other alternative is just use a serial terminal or another machine
running a terminal emulator. Use a standard 9600 bps configuration and
connect the serial terminal or other device to serial port A.

When the OBP firmware sees there is no Sun keyboard connected it will
default to use the serial port as the console device.

This is also very useful for diagnostic purposes since you can set the
machine to diagnostic boot mode and a terminal connected to serial port A
will receive and display all the hardware diag messages as the OBP firmware
runs the power-on self-tests.

Regards,

Craig.

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