alrigt thanx for the help, especially nebulus. i got the box, its a ultra enterprise 1, 2 4gb hd. didnt come w/ monitor or keyboard. he said i needed a null modem cable, i have some cables but dont know if it a null modem cable, one side is serial goin to my windows machine, the other goin to port A on the sun box which is a printer like connector. trying to get it using hyperterm, but cannot get the banner to show, so i can boot off cd to start installation. tried com1 and 2 and cant get it to work, do i need a different null modem cable, like on w/ jus two printer like connections, or can i stick w/ this one? and if so, what am i doin wrong?