[CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

Thu Aug 13 10:33:14 UTC 2009
Terry Polzin <foxec208 at wowway.com>

On Thursday August 13 2009, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Geoff Galitz<geoff at galitz.org> wrote:
> >> The second options is to use the serial port on the machine itself
> >> (you will need a null-modem cable for this). Then using things like
> >> minicom or hyperterminal you can access the console.
> >
> > On the off-chance you are using a Vista laptop to connect via the serial
> > port, you can use putty (usually used as an SSH client) to connect.
> > Hyperterminal was pulled from Vista.
> >
> > I use putty for serial port access regularly.
>
> Thanks for all the responses.
> I'll try the serial console. Wow, I've never expected there is such a
> server that is treated like some kind of appliance that doesn't need a
> normal server I/O. Thanks for the smitty password too, that's cool to
> know.
You might also be able to add a "graphics adapter"  if you have a slot 
available, basically a supported vga card.  By default a p505 doesn't come 
with one since it's only a 1U box.  My p505 is attached to an HMC  and has a 
single partition on it which I use as my NIM 

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