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Article #9506Re: Running Suns with no keyboard but using both rs232
From: Piete Brooks
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1988 04:56
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1988 04:56
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In article <16653.8811111646@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> Sun-Spots@Rice.edu writes: >We are trying to run several SUNs (3/160 3/260 3/60) as servers, without >screen and keyboard but WITH both rs232 ports in use. Generally the rs232s >feed printers, but in one case it feeds SUNLINK X25. Booting the machines ... As I remember it, if you do not have a console connected, you can use the "keyboard" connector to give you two more tty lines (ex- keyboard & mouse). You have to make a magic connector which presents two V24 connections, make a couple of devices, update /etc/gettytab (or whatever) & you're away !
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ukma!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: pb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Piete Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Running Suns with no keyboard but using both rs232 Message-ID: <8811261143.aa02302@scaup.cl.Cam.AC.UK> Date: 10 Dec 88 04:56:55 GMT References: <16653.8811111646@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 10 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 88 11:42:58 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 42, message 1 of 13 X-Issue-Reference: v7n23