Your monitor will probably have to either be a Sun Mono, or
a color monitor capable of sync on green.  (Not all are.)

I sometimes use a 17" color Sun-Sony unit borowwed from another
box.  Check the Sun NVRAM FAQ at www.sunhelp.com for a byte for
byte layout of what's in the nvram. 

From that doc:

q 1f<enter>
10<enter>
<ctr-d><enter>

k 2<enter>

That should set your console to serial A.
Putting 00 at location 58 should set it to 9600 baud.
Putting 00 at location 5B should set it to use HW handshake.

Goog luck!

On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:24:55PM +0100, Pållen wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > console. Anything special to think of there? Does netbsd support serial
> > > install or do I have to borrow a monitor?
> > 
> > Serial console should work just fine.
> 
> Yes, but I have to activate the serial console, and I can't do that
> without a monitor I guess. I soldered an adapter for a vga monitor but it
> doesn't seem to work. I'll take the framebuffer to uni tomorrow and test
> it in another 3/80... I do have a keyboard and mouse.
> 
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