Subject: Re: console type...
To: None <mellon@ipd.wellsfargo.com>
From: Chris Phillips <chris@otter.cs.yorku.ca>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/30/1994 15:28:34
|On Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:31:24 -0800
| Ted Lemon <mellon@ipd.wellsfargo.com> wrote:
|
| > Wait! If you have a DECstation 3100, you need a special loopback
| > connector in order to get it to operate headless, so your search for a
| > terminal may be in vain. You'd be better off just getting it up to
| > the point where you can telnet in and then hacking on an XTerm on some
| > other machine. That's what I've been doing recently.
What does this loop-back connector look like ? I am trying to boot a DEC3100
w/o console and having lots of trouble (hangs in boot sequence).
Thanks for any assistance,
Chris Phillips (chris@cs.yorku.ca)