As long as you have a null-modem serial cable, SPARC to i386 serial should work perfectly fine. The Ultra1 (at least the one I have) defaults to booting to serial console if the monitor is not plugged in, so I just plug a null-modem serial cable into the serial port on the back of my U1 into a serial port on the back of an i386 machine (running OpenBSD), open up tip and then boot the U1. Works better than booting serial console only on i386 in my opinion.
Jason On 6/1/05, Mike Sazhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to try sparc with OpenBSD and see if it is useful for what I do. I do > not have a monitor or keyboard that can go with it so I hope to be able to > install using a serial console. I have done this on i386 to i386. Now I > want to > know if (with the proper cable, and what kind might it be?) it is possible > to run a serial console on the sparc and control it from an i386. Or are > the two systems so different that that is impossible? Are there any other > ways to install OpenBSD without monitor/keyboard? > > Thanks, > Mike > > PS This is the system I have if it makes a difference: > > Sun ULTRA 1 Creator 3D UltraSPARC 167MHz 128MB RAM
