My original question follows:
+>
+> Hi dear fellow Admins!
+>
+> Today I have to adress you, because a friend of mine has a severe problem.
+> He got very cheap a SparcServer20, but - there may be a major drawback:
+> It won't run with a monitor. - In fact, we can't get any kind of connection
+> to the machine.
+>
+> The machine has a onboard-framebuffer and we have a Sun-VGA additionally, if this
+> may help.
+>
+> Connecting a monitor to the framebuffer and the keyboard brings no picture to
+> the screen. Even a Terminal connected to ttya doesn't seem to work.
+> And ethernet? - How, if you don't know the IP-Address?
+>
+> It's difficult for me, too, since my friend lives several kilometers from
+> where I live (different country) so I can't do everything immediately. I have to
+> tell him what he shall do... :(
+>
+> So please, is there anybody out there, who may help ?
+>
+>
+> Regards,
+>
+> Herbert
After some mails, I believe the solution is, that Suns "Server" (especially
the newer ones) are delivered without the expensive Video-RAMs.
So the solution is: simply go and get some. :)
The winner was: chrielli@iquest.net (Chris Ellington)
but I also got nice hints from:
niziarj@itd.ssb.com (Richard J. Niziak)
thenrion@csc.com (Timothy Henrion)
Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
And --- Boys, were YOU FAST !!!! :-))))))))
Thanx a lot to all of you! - I'm quite sure that this is the answer for my problem.
Bye!
Herbert
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