asked on

Ultra 1 and Ultra 2E - Viewing details??

I have just received an U1 and U2E complete with Solaris 9. I am going to connect it to my home network and use windows Hyperterminal to view and use the machines. Now I don't currently have any other cable to connect them less the network cable to my network.

My first problem is that I don't have other cables and in order to access them now I need their ip addresses. They are clean installs.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can access them?

Regards

Kartibok

jlevie

Connect a null modem cable to serial port A and configure hyperterminal for a direct connection at 9600baud, 8bit, NoParity, 1 stop. Power up the Sun and because it has no attached keyboard it will default to serial port A. You'll probably want to boot up into single user mode (interrupt the boot with a Break and do a 'boot -s' at the Prom prompt), execute /sbin/sys-unconfig, and set up networking when the box reboots.

Kartibok

ASKER

Sorry only cables I have at home at the moment are the network rj45's

;(

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

jlevie

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

Nukfror

You should really consider wiping the machines clean and installing Solaris 10. LOTS of kewl stuff in Solaris 10.

Kartibok

ASKER

When I eventually got on, I also had to add the following files to my /etc folder

echo 192.168.2.1 > defaultroute
echo 192.168.2.1 > defaultrouter

and because my resolv.conf was empty I vi'ed the following

domain anything.com
nameserver 192.168.2.1
search anything.com

So with a quick reboot, I was pinging the world and even had access to the internet.

Regards to all

K