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From: pb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Piete Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Running Suns with no keyboard but using both rs232
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Date: 10 Dec 88 04:56:55 GMT
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In article <16653.8811111646@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> Sun-Spots@Rice.edu writes:
>We are trying to run several SUNs (3/160 3/260 3/60) as servers, without
>screen and keyboard but WITH both rs232 ports in use. Generally the rs232s
>feed printers, but in one case it feeds SUNLINK X25.  Booting the machines
...
As I remember it, if you do not have a console connected, you can use the
"keyboard" connector to give you two more tty lines (ex- keyboard &
mouse).  You have to make a magic connector which presents two V24
connections, make a couple of devices, update /etc/gettytab (or whatever)
& you're away !