Installing Solaris 7 with laptop as the console..

hi,
i am trying to install Solaris 7 on E250 which didn't come
shipped with monitor/keyboard/mouse. i made use of a serial
port connector and could hyperterminal in..but it doesn't
recognize the keyboard..says it can't open an input device..
so..i am stuck with the installation..
any thoughts on this?
thanks,
vinny.

We are seeing the same problem with trying to install Solaris 7 on a system with a Adaptec 2940 scsi card. We also know that the hardware is working because it was tested with Win98.
The system boots from the install disk but doesn't see the CD-ROM to load the operating system.
We found a patch 107858-01 but can't get it to copy to floppy after downloading on another older Solaris box.
The instructions say do a
<pre>
dd if=107858-01 of=/dev/rdiskette0 bs=360k
</pre>
but it always comes up with device busy.
We are Solaris newbies so if the answer to this problem is obvious please let us know and forgive the idiocy!
TIA
Kim Harris

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