From: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@esiee.fr>
To: Stephen J de Vries <paulhill20@juno.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] hardware newbie question...
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:34:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D91BB4F.5090205@esiee.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020925.090915.-178139.3.paulhill20@juno.com
Stephen J de Vries wrote:
> I have a HP 712 that I'd purchased recently.
>
> My question is:
>
> 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?
OK for the PC monitor. Use 'Tab' at boot time to switch 712's resolution
NO for the PC keyboard (pc kbd is 75mA iirc, 712 is 500mA)
I don't know for the mouse.
>
> 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
> 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.
You can unlock HP/UX pretty easily if the box isn't in secure mode.
Just stop the boot sequence and at the BOOT_ADMIN prompt type 'bo pri ipl'
Then answer 'y' to the 'interract with...' question, and then type (i
don't know if we can say this here ;o)
hpux -iS
If the box is in secure mode there is a workaround:
Open it, unplug the HD, boot it, wait for timeout, and then deactivate
the secure mode ;)
then reboot again.
You can definitly use network to install.
Check the palinux boot howto.
I recommend you use the latest version (still under review, that's why
it's not yet available on tldp):
http://testpa.esiee.fr/.test/parisc-linux-boot.html
You will find all useful info there.
Thibaut VARENE
PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 13:09 [parisc-linux] hardware newbie question Stephen J de Vries
2002-09-25 13:34 ` Thibaut VARENE [this message]
2002-09-25 14:00 ` Andreas Deresch
2002-09-30 22:31 ` Derek Engelhaupt
2002-10-01 10:00 ` Harri Haataja
2002-10-01 10:47 ` Thibaut VARENE
2002-09-25 15:44 ` kenneth westelinck
2002-09-30 22:29 ` Derek Engelhaupt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-25 14:02 "Beerse, Corné"
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