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Re: [PLUG] Sparc Keyboard
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On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:25:28PM -0400, Rich G wrote:
> 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.
+1
I remember this very well from my Solaris admin days as well. The only
machines that would boot without a keyboard had E in front of their model
numbers.
--
Toby DiPasquale
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