To Set Up the Host System

To set up the host system, do the following:

1. Connect the host system to the test machine using serial port A on both machines.

   This connection must be made with a null modem cable.

2. On the host system, make an entry in /etc/remote for the connection if it is not already there (see the remote(4) man page for details).

   The terminal entry must match the serial port being used. The Solaris 9 operating environment comes with the correct entry for serial port B, but a terminal entry must be added for serial port A:

   debug:\
           :dv=/dev/term/a:br#9600:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:

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   Note –

   The baud rate must be set to 9600.

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3. In a shell window on the host, run tip(1) and specify the name of the entry:

   % tip debug
   connected

   The shell window is now a tip window connected to the console of the test machine.

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   Caution –

   Do not use STOP-A for SPARC machines or F1-A for IA (Intel architecture) machines on the host machine to send a break to stop the test machine. This action actually stops the host machine. To send a break to the test machine, type ~# in the tip window. Commands such as this are recognized only if they are the first characters on a line, so press the Return key or Control-U first if there is no effect.

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