yes, you can use a peecee with a terminal emulator, and anull modem 
cable, to be the console. Something like kermit should work, i think, or 
telix. 9600 8-n-1 

isildur

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dave Hauptmeister wrote:

> Hi
> Excuse me for the bad english.
> I have a DS5000/200 that i would like to get running. I have no harddisks 
> for it and the serial terminal i got with it made a *poof* and some smoke. 
> :\
> 
> Is it possible to use a a cable to connect it to my win2000-box (yuck ;)) 
> and get a console there?
> 
> What kind of cable do I need? Null-modem or what?
> 
> Can you give advise of what terminal-emulator program for win2000 to use?
> 
> Regards from Sweden
> David
> 
> P.S. Next step is to netboot it from my linux-bucket =)
> 
> 
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