RE: [parisc-linux] hardware newbie question...

["\"Beerse, Corné\"" <c.beerse@torex-hiscom.nl>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J de Vries [mailto:paulhill20@juno.com]
> I have a HP 712 that I'd purchased recently.
> 
> 
> Can I use a PC monitor, keyboard, and mouse to boot the thing 
> up?  If so,
> does the monitor have to be a multisync or something special?

I've had a 712 (running HP-UX 10.20) with a multisync monitor (compaq,
before the merger) running verry well.

As I recal, the monitor should do a sync-on-green. If you don't get a proper
picture and have a monitor-cable connection with bnc connectors, try putting
the cable-sync on the monitor-green. This should give a sharp (bad collored)
picture.

For the mouse, the HP mouse that came with the device looks verry much like
a logitech mouse with a black logitech icon. 2 exceptions: the labels differ
and the logitech has a shorter cable. The same logitech with a colored icon
on top does not work. The mouse must be a native ps/2 mouse, not one that
can do serial-mousing too.

For the keyboard: try and see what you get. No experiences with alternates
here. As with the mouse, the keyboard must be native ps/2 since it does not
get any initialize command. An easy test here is that if the bootloader
finds a keyboard, it wil use that keyboard and the video-card for
bootconsole. If the keyboard is not found, the serial-port (9600-8-N) is
used for console.

> 
> In addition, HP-UX is on the hard drive but is locked down.  I was
> thinking of buying an external CD drive and attempting to load debian
> 0.93.  Can anyone recommend a place to buy the CD drive that they have

Any scsi cd-rom that can do a 2K blocksize will do for booting. After boot,
there is no difference. HP-s are relabeled Toshiba's. 

> dealt with?  I also have a network so I could attempt a 
> network install
> but I am not sure what minimum requirements I'd need to 
> fulfill for that.
>  Is my approach the right one?

It's one right one, out of manny...


CBee

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