Dear fellow Sun Managers,
First of all, thanks to the following Sun Managers who responded to my
question (see below after my signature):
Tony Garner <tgarner@ozemail.com.au>
Anthony Worrall <Anthony.Worrall@reading.ac.uk>
Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@fnc.fujitsu.com>
Dave Foster <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu>
Salehi, Michael E <Mike.Salehi@usa.xerox.com>
Anthony nailed the correct answer. I followed his suggestion in
the following manner:
o put the transplanted system drive in the SS5 with the S24 card
o connect an external CDROM drive with the Solaris 5/99 CD in it
to the target machine
o ok> boot -rs
o mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom
o cd Solaris-2.7; cd Product ...
o pkgadd -d . SUNWtcx.m SUNWtcxow SUNWtcxu
then sync;sync;reboot. The system recognize the frame buffer immediately.
Many thanks again to Anthony for this tip. I should have checked
/opt in the original system drive first. I also could have done
a diff between the pkginfo output from a machine with TGX and TCX.
Regards,
Chin Fang
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu
=========================== original question ============================
Dear fellow Sun Managers,
I was attempting to move a system drive from a SPARCstation 5 with TGX
frame buffer to another SPARCstation 5 with S24. Upon booting up,
the OS complained about unable to find a console frame buffer.
o both SS5 are 170Mhz type
o the OS on the aforementioned system drive is Solaris 7 5/99
I indeed made a boot -r at ok prompt.
I have been unable to find in Sun docs (including several searches at
http://docs.sun.com/) how to make Solaris aware of the fact that the
target machine has a different framebuffer.
Is there an easy way to do so?
Thanks for any tips/hints.
Regards,
Chin Fang
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu
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