On Apr 2, 6:31 pm, ddun...@taos.com (Darren Dunham) wrote:

> E3500 is pretty old. I don't think Sun had RJ-45 console interfaces on
> anything when they were out. These should have a nice 'A' and 'B'
> marking next to the ports.

That definitely appears to be the case. I've got the machine
connected and on right now. I'm using a nullmodem cable connected to
a USB serial adapter and I'm talking to the Enterprise 3500 through
minicom on my ubuntu machine right now. Well, I shouldn't say talking
to it, more like listening to it. I have gotten a 'Hardware Power ON'
from it, about 10 minutes ago, and nothing else as of yet. The
Solaris 10 Sparc CDRom #1 is in the drive and awaiting some semblance
of a booting procedure or the 'OK' prompt for me to type 'boot cdrom'
at right now.

I've heard these machines take awhile to boot up. I didn't know it'd
be this long. Wonder if something is fried in the hardware.

-Damon Getsman