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Old 06-09-2010
Need Help connecting to sunfire v240

I recently acquired a sunfire v240 and I'm trying to get into it so I can install linux on it. Right now I'm still trying to get a monitor connected so I can do this.

I've tried connecting to it with a crossover cable to my laptop (vista and linux equipped). I was able to get a connection through one of the com ports with putty under windows, but when the window popped up it was just black with no text and anything that I typed in on the laptop didn't do anything.

I also tried connecting via lan with both ethernet cables and a db9 to rj45 connection-no dice. I don't know the machines ip because I got it used and I know basically nothing about the sun machines or the solaris OS that they use. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.
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Old 06-09-2010
you need to configure the alom to access the server... you can find the complete server documentation at docs.sun.com. the alom section is here:
C H A P T E R 3 - Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager

also note that the v240 is a sparc system and to find a linux that runs (good) on sparc is not easy! it might be better to use solaris...

hth,
DN2
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Old 06-09-2010
Thank you, I will definately read that over. I was going to use ubuntu simply because I know nothing about solaris. I need something that will be able to perform everyday tasks like document editing, websurfing, instant messaging etc-and I figured it would be easier for me to put linux on it than to learn solaris.

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Ok I read that but it doesn't tell me how to get a visual. The server is used so it's been configured i'm sure. That chapter assumes that you already have a monitor hooked up to it and I don't have that.
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