An alien landscape

[brento73]

I'm a helpdesk guy in an NT environment, butwe do have a couple of Sun boxes that act as firewalls. As a testament to the *nix reliabilty, NO ONE knows anything about the setup, or even operation of these machines. They just sit there and do their thing, unfettered by the rest of the crap we have.

Anyway...

After closing down one of our offices, we have a Sun Enterprise 250 server sitting around collecting dust. My question is, how the hell do I do anything on this machine? The prompt says 'ok' and doesn't respond to any of the general stuff I know how to do: ls, cd, etc. It doesn't even have a logon when it boots up. It is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.

If anyone has any idea what to do with this thing, let me know.

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Brent O'Dell
MCP and Linux Newbie

[donxc2]

You're right, that is wierd but it does remind me of an old Forth system that would go through a bootup and leave "ok" on the screen. Then had to type the word hi and press enter to get things going.
Just a thought that I hope will help.

Don

[bytemare]

type "boot" http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[brento73]

Possitively amazing. You have to tell this thing to actually boot into the OS. You're right bytemare, boot /dev/hda1/. Who woulda thought? Well, besides you, that is...

Now if I can figure out who around here might know the password...

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Brent O'Dell
MCP and Linux Newbie

[bytemare]

I think you can set it up so automatically boots without going to the "ok" prompt.

You're bummin' if you don't have the password, but is something you can try:

1. If you have the installation CD, boot with it, then when you get to the graphical installer, just right click on the background and edit the shadow file. Oh yeah, from the ok prompt you would type "boot cdrom" to boot from the cd.

If this a sparc, then I don't think your first slice would be /dev/hda1, I think it would be /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0

good luck http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[slayer17]

Type help at the ok prompt for additional items, you can then choose to boot from the either the cdrom or the harddrive. If you get a prompt at the ok, such a Eprom password then you are in for a long hard day. You will either have to supply the correct password of change out the pron chipset. Some issues that I hope that you don't have to go through.