HP-UX

Hello there, first post here so go easy on me!

I just aquired an old HP 9000 Dclass d220 server, all I know is that it's running HP-UX, and it appears to boot fine (I see the modules loading, etc..)

Now, I have been an MS guy all my life (yeah I know, make fun of me), so I really have no idea when it comes to anything UNIX related.

First question (and this had to come from an MS guy, right?), any GUI at all on HP-UX? and if so, how do I bring it up?

I only ask because if I can at least have a GUI I'm pretty sure I can figure out a thing or two, it's just though to be presented with a blinking cursor when you don;t even know one command!

Thanks to any kind soul who helps me

What version of HP-UX have you got? The default GUI is probably CDE (Common Desktop Environment).

In the very last line it says:

GenericSysName [HP release B.11.00]

Does that help?

Yes it helps... and its not that bad...
You are a happy owner of a brave little box that at the time could do miracles (compared to win...).
What do you want to do with it?
All I can see is : LEARN HP-UX!

I doubt you can do much more for I'm sure any other than HP software has been removed...

About GUI... To my knowledge these servers were sold as small apps/RDBMS servers and had no graphic cards in standard and in Europe I'm not sure it existed as option...
Where I work, one D220 is still in production (with HP-UX 10.20 because of legacy oracle 7.2 /forms 3...) and have in my garage 2 d260...
Now if all HP-UX is installed you have X11...
You didn't say what you used as console, a HP 700/96 ?
You should configure a little intranet at home where you could access this box from your PC using a X emulator/server software if you have only a winXX PC .
Once you got your private lan working, come back for your first lesson on configuring!

HP-UX 11.00 was released in November 1997 and went end of life in February 2005. You can access the reference manuals at HP-UX Reference Manuals

Thanks a lot man!!

All I have it's the server itself, the monitor/keyboard/mouse, so I was sitting right in front of it, from what I know it used to run "Convergence" an accounting software of sorts, whcih was accessed by windows computers through terminal emulators.

Does this thing gets its IP adress from a DHCP server? How would I even know if it's set to a static IP?

Are there any "modern" OS'es whcih would run on it? I believe i saw something about LINUX?

So may questions!!

But I guess I should start from the begining...

1- Choose Os
2- Install from scratch, then go from there

Again, thanks man

Linux will run on almost anything, HPUX is much more picky. It's also expensive and not easy to get. This may be more useful as an HPUX educational machine, while it lasts.

If you're interested in UNIX administration, learning to deal with it without the GUI is a good idea. Sadly I don't know where to begin with HPUX, never having touched one myself.