Rich G on 8 Apr 2006 22:25:53 -0000 |
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 22:19 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:34:29PM -0400, Bob Heise said: > > Hello all, > > > > I recently acquired a Sun ultrasparc and would like to put linux on it; > > however, it uses a proprietary sort of keyboard I do not own. Does > > anyone have an extra such keyboard they would be willing to part with, > > or know where I could obtain one cheaply? > > I can't help with your acrual problem, but I can offer alternative > advice. You can usually get a serial console on sparcs, and just > communicate via that, without needing the actual sun keyboard. > > Hope that helps, I don't believe this is totally accurate. While I haven't done Sun admin in a long timme, I know you can get to the SPARC via the serial port but Sun used to require a keyboard for desktop machines. We used to have modified keyboard connectors that allowed the box to boot w/o a keyboard.... No keyboard. No bootup. And the machines used to lockup w/o the keyboard. It very well may depend on the machine and class as to whether the keyboard is actually required. Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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