no@spam.invalid (davidfowler2000) writes:

>I know from experience that a Sun system will not boot to the OpenPROM
>if there is no keyboard attached and you end up needing a serial
>connection.

It will boot but it will not show any output on the video device;
it only sends output to the serial port if no keyboard is present.

If you don't think you'll ever want serial, you could, I think,
try:

eeprom output-device=screen
eeprom input-device=ttya

then the automatic mapping does not happen.

>My question is this - will a Sun system without keyboard / monitor
>auto-boot to the hard drive which i can then use SSH with? I want to
>use my Ultra 60 (Gentoo Linux) as a server / distcc compiler as i
>have another 270MHz sun machine which i want to put Gentoo on.
>Problem is i have only one keyb / mouse

Yes, no problem whatsoever.

Casper
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