how to install software without the video card 1

[snowsmart]

As most of Sun Sparc Servers do not come with a video card, please let me know, how can I install solaris ? and how can I access the GUI for installing Oracle or any other GUI program ?

Thanks

Henry

 

[jawg]

Most of the Sun machines these days have 2 levels of connecting and three different physical port to do so.

One level is connects you to the SC controller where you can manage the hardware. There are two ways to connect to this level. One is a serial connect and one is a network connect. When you first get the box you can only connect through the serial.
Once connected you can run "setupsc" to configure the network connection. To connect to the serial port you should have gotten a serial adapter with the box. Use that with a cat5 cable to connect the serial port on a working box to the RJ45 serial port on the new server (looks like a regular network port, but it is serial) using something like hyperterminal if you are on Windows

Once the network port is configured, you can connect through either the serial or network connections to connect to the system controller (SC) (not the OS). You can 'jump up' from the SC to the OS level with the "console" command.

Once you have installed an OS and configured the eth interface, you can come in through that interface also.

At this point you will have 3 RJ45 ports avail:
Serial (sc)
eth (sc)
eth (OS)

Good luck

 

[snowsmart]

Thanks for your help. After installing the OS from SC controller. how could I access the Solaris GUI from a Window PC ( through the eth) ? is there anything like "terminal server" on Solaris ?

Thanks

henry

 

[MorganGreylock]

If you can get a Windows-based xterm/xwindows emulator, you can export your display from the Sun server to whatever computer you connect from. Read the man pages on 'xhost' and 'ssh' using the -x (or -X, I forget) argument.. You might also have to export your DISPLAY variable too. Usually its 'export DISPLAY=<server you are connecting from>:0.0', but it can be different on various systems.

Hope that at least gives you a place to start.