Console access to Sun Fire V880


Hi,

yesterday we received a Sun Fire V880 server here, which is being used
as a development and test machine. This is the first SPARC we have
since years, because we are usually using i386 machines. The machine
was previously in use by someone else and I have no access to the
previous users. In particular, I have no idea about network
configuration and stuff like that. No problem, I thought, lets start
with a clean installation.

Obviously, I need console access to do the installation. Inspection
showed, that there seem to be two serial lines on the machines back:
One with 25 pins, female, and one with an RJ45 connector. Of course,
nothing was delivered with the machine. Sun admins are most possibly
supposed to have such stuff. I managed to obtain a connector from RJ45
to my laptops 9 pin, male connector, an RJ45 cable and a connector
from RJ45 to 25 pins, female. Nothing crossed, or stuff like that,
AFAIK.

Unfortunately, I was absolutely unable to get a boot prompt from the
machine. I tried both serial connectors, I tried Hyperterminal
(Windows) and picocom (Linux), varying device names (COM1, COM2, ...
or /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, ...) with no success.

Any ideas, what I might be doing wrong? Or other ways to perform the
installation?


Thanks,

Jochen
.

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