Re: Installing OpenBSD 4.6 on a Sun Netra X1

Actually what I proposed below is false -- I figured it out -- just had to use
the eeprom command to set ttya to LOM only. Works now!

Yessssss!



On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Zach Wendell wrote:

> I think what I'm looking for is something similar to Solaris's
"sys-unconfig" command...
>
> ~Zach
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>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Zach Wendell wrote:
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>> Okay, you guys are awesome! That was very easy -- install took < 15 min.
>>
>> Now for the n00b questions...
>>
>> 1.  How do I get a lom> prompt with minicom from my linux box?
>>
>> I'd like to remote into my linux machine from work tomorrow, then use
minicom to connect to the Netra via its serial port (which is connected
properly and works, since I walked through the OpenBSD install via
minicom/linux). Right now, when I start minicom, I get a login prompt for
OpenBSD. I can use SSH for that, I want to be able to poweron/poweroff via LOM
when I'm not at home.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> You all have been great, and are really helping me out -- a new OpenBSD
user, on SPARC hardware no less!
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> ~Zach
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Henning Brauer <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> * Darrin Chandler <[email protected]> [2009-12-07 21:32]:
>> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Hans Ivers wrote:
>> > > So, you need to either plug the HD into a machine with CDROM or plug a
CDROM
>> > > drive in the second IDE port.
>> > No net boot capability?
>>
>> of course. from the many sparc64 systems I have most have no CD
>> drives, and i dunno if they're toast or not - I haven't used any in
>> ages.
>>
>> the X1/V100 has the same decent lom the t1 105 / v120 have (2
>> different versions there, doesn't really matter)
>>
>> --
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