Thanks to all the following people (plus those who are or will be
responding after this email). Most suggested looking at the console
parameters to see if it was going to graphics or serial. Unfortunately the
box has always been a headless server and does not even have a graphics
card, there was no way for me to get to the console to check. A couple of
people mentioned that these type boxes will auto select the serial device
for the console if no keyboard is detected. This turned out to be
correct. Rick pointed out that a straight throuh serial cable would not
work as DTE devices can not talk to each other. I needed a null
modem. Once I introduced one into the line, I could connect to the console.
Kurt A. Ludwig
George Gallen
carl.yeaman
Matthew Harris
Selden E Ball Jr
Kumar, Raman
Hummers, Rick (Frederick)
Dr. Thomas.Blinn who also pointed out I need licensing which I
forgot about
Dana Huggard
Howard E. Arnold
Talawala, Murtaza
By the way - can you get personal licenses for T64 like you can
for vms? How about tru cluster?
Thanks again,
Paul
At 10:47 AM 2/8/02 -0500, Paul LaMadeleine wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> I recently came into the pocession of an Alphaserver 400 4/233
> that was running VMS for years and then was retired from service. I've
> checked it over and it looks OK. It sounds like it's booting into vms.
>
> I want to install T64 on it. One small problem. I can't seem to
> get a serial connection working to the box. I've set up my Reflextions
> session to use com port 1 using 8/n/1 at 9600. I've connected to dozens
> of serial consoles using this setup. The only thing I can think of is a
> bad serial cable. Any other thoughts? Is there something I need to do
> on the alpha to tell it to use the serial port?
>
> Plus - is there anything special I need to do to get T64 5.1a
> installed on this server?
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
>
Received on Fri Feb 08 2002 - 21:14:16 NZDT