I'm trying to help a friend install Solaris 10 on his Sunfire V120.

He is using a PC with Teraterm, but had problems selecting a terminal
type. I assumed vt100 would bee the most sensible choice, so he set that
on both Teraterm and on the Solaris install. But he says when selecting
the country/locale for support, he needed some arrow keys but these
would not work. Any idea how things should be selected on that menu? He
tried all combinations (tab, shift tab etc), but says he could not
navigate to the right bits.

He then tried another (we think it was x terminal emulator), and as I
write he is trying again. Apparently function keys now function, but
still no arrow keys, so he can't set the country.

Any idea of the best terminal to select during the Solaris install, and
the best setting for Teraterm? I know about the 8N1 settings, but this
is a terminal type.

I'm pretty sure setting vt100 on both should work, but he can't it to
work, and not being there I can't really try myself.

Hew has another

Dave wrote:

> Hew has another
>

That was supposed to be he has another Sun (T1) which like the V120 has
a serial port. What sort of serial cable do you need to go from one
serial port (RJ45 on these boxes) to another RJ45? One option, which I
can't see being necessary, but might be easier, is if I ssh to his T1
and connect to the V120 via a serial cable and install Solaris using tip.

I have Installed Solaris lots of times using the
HyperTerminal software that is the Term-emu
that comes standard with Windows XP.
arrow keys work with Hyper Terminal.

//Lars