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Achab

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Dec 29, 2009, 6:48:31 AM12/29/09
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FinallyI found the way for the prompt, now I need to know the hardware
installed, if somenody could help me

Doug McIntyre

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Dec 29, 2009, 9:32:07 AM12/29/09
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Achab <ac2...@gmail.com> writes:
>FinallyI found the way for the prompt, now I need to know the hardware
>installed, if somenody could help me

The way to see what hardware in a box is complex to learn to read,
there's no simple easy way. But an Ultra 5 is a very simple box,
there's not much to it, and especially there's not many options that
can go in.

I'd propose that the easiest way for a beginner to see is to open the
case and look at what cards if any are in there, and find their part #s.
(ie. 370-3753 or 370-4362) and google those part numbers (PGX32 or PGX64).

Its built much like a PC, which was its big "draw" to have a cheap
entry-level workstation built mostly on PC hardware.

CPU and memory amounts are seen when the box boots, although the range
between 270MHz and 400MHz for CPU isn't going to be too huge.
The memory is printed on boot. You have either a CD-ROM or not which
would be visable. You most likely have one hard drive, which can be
seen for size by 'df' after the box boots, or through 'format'.
Typical drive sizes for that era would be 4GB, 9GB, 20GB.

The only "option" one typically might have would be a better
frame-buffer than the PGX onboard, but I'd suspect most Ultra 5s have
the stock built in frame-buffer and no add-on cards installed.

As I said, there are ways to see the hardware, ie. prtcnf once Solaris
is running, or looking around the device tree from openboot. But
learning to read either of these effectively would take you days of study.
Opening up the box and looking at cards would take less than an hour.

Achab

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Dec 29, 2009, 11:22:08 AM12/29/09
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Trovato il modo per leggere il BIOS (F2)
ma prima di imbattermi in passaggi sconosciuti, come si esce dal setup
del BIOS. Cos� sapr� se ha installato qualcosa sull'Hard Disk e cosa
come posso saperlo?

Achab

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Dec 29, 2009, 11:25:02 AM12/29/09
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Sorry I am tired
found (F2) to enter in Bios setup
but how may I get out?
how may I know wath S.O. had installed on the HD

Steve Firth

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Dec 29, 2009, 11:53:51 AM12/29/09
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Achab <ac2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Trovato il modo per leggere il BIOS (F2)
> ma prima di imbattermi in passaggi sconosciuti, come si esce dal setup
> del BIOS. Cos� sapr� se ha installato qualcosa sull'Hard Disk e cosa
> come posso saperlo?

Tutto qui: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-4436

Mi dispiace. I documenti sono disponibili solo in inglese.

Achab

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Dec 30, 2009, 6:09:29 AM12/30/09
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Ti ringrazio, ma forse il miglior consiglio � il primo.
Incomincio ad avere il dubbio che non ci sia proprio l'HD ?
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